Portrait of Thomas Ashburne, aged 11 years

Stephen Elmer (1715/14 - 1796)

Museum of Farnham

1735

Thomas was the only son of a wealthy Farnham dignitary. He is depicted wearing the fashionable attire of a gentleman: brown wool coat, elaborately embroidered silk waistcoat, and cambric or linen shirt. He carries a three-cornered hat under one arm and holds a silver-topped cane. In his buttonhole there is a sprig of summer jasmine. Stephen Elmer owned the building which now houses the Museum of Farnham.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 78 x 65 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £3100 ( Total: £12,500)
• ArtFunded in: 1996
• Vendor: Anthony Mould

Provenance

Private collection, Somerset.

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