© National Portrait Gallery
Self Portrait of Stubbs
Artist: George Stubbs (1724 - 1806)
Location: National Portrait Gallery
Date: 1781
Materials: enamel on jasper
Dimensions: 70 x 53 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £2,500 (Total: £8,000)
Vendor: Sotheby's
Review number: 2266 (1967)
Provenance:
Richard Thorold; Sir John Astley, 3rd Bt; Mrs Muriel S.Heely.
Description:
Self Portrait of Stubbs painted on a Wedgewood plaque. Only self portrait save a preliminary drawing now at Yale. Moreover, only major portrait of the artist. Previously unknown, first exhibited 1951 as a portrait of Wedgwood but retitled by Basil Taylor. Signed and dated and inscribed as having been painted for his friend 'Richard Thorold of the Inner Temple London 1781.'
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