Portrait of Mr Dodshon Foster of Lancaster
William Tate
- Art Funded
- 1992
- Dimensions
- 89 x 73 cm
- Vendor
- Sotheby's
William Tate, a well-known portrait-painter, was born and worked in Liverpool, a port with which Lancastrian merchants like Mr Dodshon Foster had strong connections.
This half-length portrait depicts the sitter in a brown coat with orange waistcoat seated in a tropical landscape with his dog at his side. A prominent Quaker merchant and ship owner, Foster was involved with the transatlantic slave trade on which much of Lancaster's prosperity was based.
Provenance
Humphrey Townley; Charles Aindon.