Portia and Bassanio
Oil Painting
1831 (painted)
1831 (painted)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Oil painting
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Portia and Bassanio (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Oil on canvas |
| Brief description | Oil painting by Gilbert Stuart Newton entitled 'Portia and Bassanio' from Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice' (Act III, Scene 2). Great Britain, 1831. |
| Physical description | Oil painting |
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| Style | |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'G S Newton 1831' (Signed and dated by the artist, lower left) |
| Credit line | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Object history | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Subject depicted | |
| Literary reference | Shakespeare, <i>The Merchant of Venice</i> |
| Bibliographic reference | Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 215-16 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | FA.166[O] |
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| Record created | April 16, 2007 |
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