Portia
Oil Painting
ca. 1848 (painted)
ca. 1848 (painted)
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The subject was once thought to be the character of this name from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. However, the classical dress and hairstyle suggest that it depicts another Portia, the wife of Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Portia (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | oil on panel |
| Brief description | Oil painting, 'Portia', Charles Robert Leslie, ca. 1848 |
| Physical description | Oil painting |
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| Credit line | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
| Object history | Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857 |
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| Summary | The subject was once thought to be the character of this name from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. However, the classical dress and hairstyle suggest that it depicts another Portia, the wife of Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. |
| Bibliographic reference | Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 172-73 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | FA.127[O] |
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| Record created | May 21, 2003 |
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