- Title:
- Self Portrait at the Age of about Nineteen
- Object name(s):
- Picture; British
- Brief description:
- William Boxall (1800--1879) painted this self-portrait when he was around 19 and about to enter the Royal Academy Schools to train as a painter. He gave it to his sister Anne. The head is rather less than three-quarters life-size. The picture may have been made as a preparatory study for the life-sized self portrait painted at about the same time, which was hanging in Boxall's house when he died.Among Boxall's closest friends were Sir Charles Eastlake, the first Director of the National Gallery from 1855 to 1865, and Lady Eastlake, whose portrait Boxall painted in 1854. Boxall accompanied them on picture-hunting tours in Italy.On 9 February 1866 Queen Victoria approved Boxall's appointment as the second Director of the National Gallery. He exhibited no further work after this but proved to be an able Director, purchasing Michelangelo's Entombment and his Madonna and Child with Saint John and Angels for the Gallery. He was knighted in 1871 and died on 6 December 1879.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1983-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1983
- Date - latest:
- 1983
- Acquisition source:
- Christopher Wood
- Credit line:
- Presented by Christopher Wood, 1983
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 3/875/91/540/mid_N-6482-00-000011.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 53.00
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 41.60
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; British
- Object production date:
- about 1819
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1819
- Date - latest:
- 1819
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1800-24
- Object production person:
- Sir William Boxall
- Person's birth date:
- 1800
- Person's death date:
- 1879
- Object production place:
- Britain
- Object production place:
- London
- Other number:
- NG6482
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0ELD-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG6482
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-02UK-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng36482
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Owner:
- Sir William Boxall
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- bust portraits
- Style:
- male portraits
- Style:
- self portraits
- Style:
- neoclassical
- Style:
- Regency
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 71
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery Report: January 1982 - December 1984
- Reference details:
- 24
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The British Paintings
- Reference details:
- 419-25
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The Making of the National Gallery 1824-1924
- Reference details:
- 40-2
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The British School
- Reference details:
- 419-25
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Early Victorian Portraits: National Portrait Gallery
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Sir William Boxall, R. A.
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- A Little Known Director: Sir William Boxall
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- John Ruskin and William Boxall: Unpublished Correspondence
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Sale Catalogue
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Sir William Boxall
- Reference details:
- 602
- Reference note:
- Select Bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
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