Self-Portrait | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.191
People: William Etty, British (York, England 1787 - 1849 York, England)
Title: Self-Portrait
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: c. 1825
Culture: British
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/230155

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on millboard

Dimensions

42.86 x 30.48 cm (16 7/8 x 12 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.l: Etty
inscription: Inscription noted in conservation file: Portrait [in ink]; inscribed on boards: Roberson & Co./ 51 Lon[ ], London.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: E. W. Smithson, sold; to [Arnold Seligmann, London, 1928], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1938, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.191

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

Dennis Farr, William Etty, Routledge and Paul (London, England, 1958), p. 49 and p. 165, no. 152d
Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 106, repr. as no. 39

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