- Title:
- Thomas Otway
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- This is the only known original portraits of the playwright and poet Thomas Otway (1652-1685) to exist. Copies of his works and critical discussion of them are held in Senate House Library, with a first edition of his Friendship in Fashion (1678).
- Conservation note:
- conserved by Painting Conservation Studio, 2016 (see conservation report)
- Dimension:
- 74 x 62 cm (ca)
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object history note:
- Gift, Sir Louis Sterling (1951, from Christies, 29 June 1951). Previously: Charles Montague, 1st Earl of Halifax (sale 1739/40); Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; Henry Lascelles, later 6th Earl of Harewood (1918; from house sale, Leedam and Harrison, 15-25 July 1918.
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PO-0124
- Object production date:
- 18th cent.
- Object production person:
- Riley, John (att.)
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1646-1691
- Person's gender:
- M
- Person's nationality:
- English
- Responsible department/section:
- Senate House Lib.
- User's reference:
- D. Piper, 'The Chesterfield House Library Portraits', in R. Wellek and A. Ribeiro (ed.), Evidence in Literary Scholarship (Oxford, 1979)
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/b7fa0472-40fc-3747-a1d8-8d9c5dc9ca00
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/b7fa0472-40fc-3747-a1d8-8d9c5dc9ca00, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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