- Title:
- in gilded frame.
- Object name(s):
- Paintings; Painting
- Brief description:
- Oil painting of Anthony Ten Broeke, seated in a chair, facing viewer with his right hand upon the arm rest and his left hand on his lap, holding a pair of compasses. He is wearing an apron with a rounded, pleated lower edge and with two tassel ends showing. He is also wearing the Caledonian Lodge Master's chain, from which is hanging a set square. Around his neck is a ribbon from which hangs a presentation jewel, star shaped, with an oval centre containing a female figure, seated on a globe and holding a set square and compasses.
- Collection:
- Museum of Freemasonry
- Acquisition method:
- Donation
- Associated concept:
- Paintings--Masonic
- Associated concept:
- Portraits--Masonic--England
- Associated person:
- Drummond, Samuel, 1765-1844, Painter
- Comments:
- Anthony Ten Broeke obtained British Citizenship by Private Statute in 1777. In 1764, he was a member of Caledonian Lodge, No. 325 (later New Caledonian Lodge, No. 134). In 1768 he was presented with a jewel for great service as Master. In 1771 he was expelled with 10 other members of the lodge from the Craft for writing a letter to the Provincial Grand Master of the Austrian Netherlands which the Grand Lodge (Moderns) considered defamatory. He was reinstated in 1777 after apologising. He joined Shakespear Lodge in 1780 and was elected Master in 1783 and 1784, but he resigned from this lodge in 1785. In 1788 he was a founder member of the committee of the Royal Cumberland Freemasons' School, later the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls, and as Governor of that charity was present at Freemasons' Hall in 1801. He died on 30th September 1812.
- Comments:
- The collar Anthony Ten-Broeke is seen wearing in the painting is one of a number of similar collars made for the officers of Caledonian Lodge, No.134 and still used by them today. They are currenly on loan to the Library and Museum of Freemasonry, as is the Past Master's presentation jewel that also features in the painting.
- Comments:
- Portrait painter Samuel Drummond enrolled at the Royal Academy schools in 1791 where he exhibited over three hundred works until his death in 1844. In 1808 he was elected as an associate of the Royal Academy. He became known for portraiture and his sitters included John Gully (1783-1863), sportsman and prize-fighter, Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845), prison reformer and Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849), civil engineer.
- Content - description:
- Anthony Ten Broeke, Chair, Pair of compasses, Apron, Tassels, Caledonian Lodge Master's chain, Set square, Globe, Set square and compass, Sun, Moon
- Dimension:
- (Without frame) H: 1245 W: 990 D: n/a Dia: n/a Wt: n/a
- Entry date:
- 10/01/1938
- Object name:
- Paintings; Painting
- Object number:
- M2008/256
- Object production date:
- n/k
- Object production place:
- England
- Related object number:
- 35325178
- Related object note:
- Related object database number
- Reproduction format:
- Digital image
- Technique:
- Hand painted
- Technique:
- Gilded
- Technique:
- Carved frame
- Technique:
- Stretched canvas
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/dc9e5072-6159-32d8-a9f8-86968fe0e3f7, Museum of Freemasonry, CC BY
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