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Title:
Portraits of a Man and a Woman
Object name(s):
Picture; British
Brief description:
These two pictures, both painted in oil on board, were designed to hang together as portraits of a husband and wife. They are said to have been given by the painter Sir William Boxall RA, director of the National Gallery from 1865 to 1874, to his friend, the architect James Wyatt RA (1746--1813). Wyatt’s great-grandson, H.W. Standen, presented them to the National Gallery in 1964 as a 'Self-Portrait of William Boxall and a companion portrait of his wife'. However, the features in the male portrait are unlike those in Boxall's Self Portrait at the Age of Nineteen, which is also in the National Gallery, and he never married. It is now thought more likely that these are early portraits by Boxall of his parents.
Collection:
National Gallery
Current location:
Not on display
Object name:
Picture; British
Object production date:
about 1830
Date - earliest / single:
1830
Date - latest:
1830
Object production date:
Date - period:
1825-49
Object production person:
British
Object production person:
Sir William Boxall
Person's birth date:
1800
Person's death date:
1879
Other number:
GROUP3
Other number type:
object number
Other number:
0HRA-0001-0000-0000
Other number type:
PID
Other number:
NG6352-NG6353
Other number type:
display number
Other number:
000-06LH-0000
Other number type:
PID (NG alternative)
Other number:
NG6352-NG6353
Other number type:
Display Number
Other number:
group03
Other number type:
sort number
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:
neoclassical
Style:
Georgian

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/36ed3fdf-6fcc-3d7f-a76f-9a21f881a2a7

Use licence for this record: CC BY

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/36ed3fdf-6fcc-3d7f-a76f-9a21f881a2a7, National Gallery, CC BY

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