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Self-Portrait

Oil Painting
1830 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

An oil self-portrait, in three-quarter profile. The artist wears 1830s dress and clutches his coat with both hands.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleSelf-Portrait (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on canvas
Brief description
Oil Painting, 'Self-Portrait', William Havell, 1830
Physical description
An oil self-portrait, in three-quarter profile. The artist wears 1830s dress and clutches his coat with both hands.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 50.7cm
  • Estimate width: 45.7cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Style
Marks and inscriptions
'given/to/Jane/Havell/portrait/of W/Havell/January/1841/Painted in/1830 by/W. Havell.' (Inscribed, possibly by the artist, on a piece of wood on th back of the stretcher)
Credit line
Given by H. Allnutt, the artist's nephew
Object history
Given by Mr H. Allnutt, 1894
Bibliographic reference
Parkinson, R., Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 121-122
Collection
Accession number
870-1894

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Record createdAugust 3, 2006
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