An Old Man using a Pair of Dividers
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1800
Materials
Oil on twill canvas
Measurements
737 x 940 mm (29 x 37 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Montacute House, Somerset
NT 597924
Summary
Oil painting on twill canvas, An Old Man using a Pair of Dividers, British (English) School, circa 1800. A portrait of an old man, half-length, with a long white beard and wearing a brown coat and hat, at a table, writing.
Provenance
Unknown acquisition
Makers and roles
British (English) School, publisher Italian School, publisher previously catalogued as attributed to Jusepe de Ribera (Jativa 1591 – Margellina 1652), publisher
References
Montacute House, Somerset, 1991 [The National Trust; Malcolm Rogers] 1991, p.83 "THE GROUND FLOOR CORRIDOR (THE LOWER CLIFTON MAYBANK CORRIDOR) NORTH END Old Man Perhaps a nineteenth-centur copy after Ribera (1591?-1652)." Montacute House, Somerset, 1997 [The National Trust; Malcolm Rogers] 1991, revised 1997 , p.60 "THE DRAWING ROOM NORTH END Old Man Perhaps a nineteenth-centur copy after Ribera (1591?-1652)." Montacute House, Somerset, 2004-2006 [The National Trust; Malcolm Rogers] 2000, revised 2004, reprinted 2005, 2006, p.48 "THE DRAWING ROOM NORTH END Old Man Perhaps a nineteenth-centur copy after Ribera (1591?-1652)."