Portrait of Sir Thomas Phillips in Arab Dress

Richard Dadd (1817 - 1886)

Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum

1842 - 1843

Sir Thomas Phillips was Dadd's patron, whom he accompanied on a tour which included Egypt, where this picture was painted. This watercolour is one of the last pictures of any significance which Dadds painted before his mental illness.

• Medium: watercolour
• Dimensions: 26 x 18 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £1227 ( Total: £25,878)
• ArtFunded in: 1993
• Vendor: Christie's

Provenance

By descent in the family of the sitter's brother; Christie's, 1993.

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