Portrait of Mr and Mrs Woodhead and Mr Henry Comber in Rome

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780 - 1867)

Fitzwilliam Museum

1816

Portrait group of Mr and Mrs Joseph Woodhead with the Reverend Henry Comber, brother of the latter, as a youth, during their visit to Rome. Mrs Harriet Woodhead is shown seated with her right arm intertwined with her husband's who leans towards her in a pose of romantic affection. The Reverend is posed as a dandy. The drawing is among the most ambitious by Ingres portraying English sitters. The sitters were relations of the vendors.

• Medium: pencil on paper
• Dimensions: 30.4 x 22.4cm
• Art Fund Grant: £1200 ( Total: £1,200)
• ArtFunded in: 1947
• Vendor: Brigadier General H A Walker

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