- Title:
- Portrait of Martin Colnaghi
- Object name(s):
- Picture; British
- Brief description:
- Martin Colnaghi (1821--1908) was a picture dealer and collector with a keen interest in old master paintings, especially Dutch and Flemish pictures. He is portrayed in his outdoor clothes, sitting on a buttoned red leather seat in front of a large gilt-framed landscape oil painting; he has removed his top hat and one glove but not his coat, suggesting that he is not at home. Perhaps he is visiting the National Gallery.Colnaghi was a considerable benefactor to the Gallery, leaving it five paintings and the sum of £75,000 in his will. The funds were used to buy 13 paintings, including works by Cezanne and Delacroix.One of four known portraits of Colnaghi, this picture was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1889. It was donated to the Gallery by Colnaghi's widow, Amy, after his death in 1908.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1908-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1908
- Date - latest:
- 1908
- Credit line:
- Presented by Mrs Martin H. Colnaghi, 1908
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 993/372/509/mid_N-2286-00-000009.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 111.80
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 87.00
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; British
- Object production date:
- 1889
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1889
- Date - latest:
- 1889
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1875-99
- Object production person:
- John Callcott Horsley
- Person's birth date:
- 1817
- Person's death date:
- 1903
- Other number:
- NG2286
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0HAT-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG2286
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- M913
- Other number type:
- Previous Object Number
- Other number:
- 000-062X-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng32286
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Owner:
- Martin H. Colnaghi
- 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:
- realist
- Style:
- Victorian
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/cfb66b9d-0cb0-39b7-8786-c6bf14d6a7ea
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/cfb66b9d-0cb0-39b7-8786-c6bf14d6a7ea, National Gallery, CC BY
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