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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
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Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
National Gallery Catalogues: The British Paintings
Reference details:
419-25
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Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
The Making of the National Gallery 1824-1924
Reference details:
40-2
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Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
The British School
Reference details:
419-25
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Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
Early Victorian Portraits: National Portrait Gallery
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Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
Sir William Boxall, R. A.
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Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
A Little Known Director: Sir William Boxall
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User's reference:
John Ruskin and William Boxall: Unpublished Correspondence
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User's reference:
Sale Catalogue
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Reference type:
reference
User's reference:
Sir William Boxall
Reference details:
602
Reference note:
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Reference type:
reference

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Use licence for this record: CC BY

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