John Opie, R.A. (1761-1807)

细节

John Opie, R.A. (1761-1807)

Portrait of the Artist, bust-length, in a brown coat and a white cravat
13½ x 11in. (34.3 x 28cm.)

来源

Lime Grove Sale, 1856
Lionel Rogers, of Penrose, and by descent

出版

J.W. Scobell Armstrong, 'The Early Work of John Opie, R.A.', Connoisseur, 1934, XCIV, p. 245 (illus.)

拍品专文

The present picture dates to the late 1770's and is therefore one of the earliest in a series of self-portrait studies made by Opie throughout his career. The present picture relates most closely to the painting exhibited at the Tate Gallery March-April 1963, no. 38 (Romney Fox Collection).