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Portrait of the artist's son, James Seymour

Maker

(artist)
1702-1739

Title

Portrait of the artist's son, James Seymour

Date of Production

1702-1739

Medium

graphite and pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 10.6 cm
Width: 8.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2674

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Notes

The drawing is secured on all sides to the mount so the verso is no longer visible (photos and transparencies exist, however). The subject identification is apparently based on another pen drawing, of the same youth, inscribed on the verso ‘Young Seymore the Colonell’s Son’, which was in the collection of Iolo Williams and was published in Country Life, 24 Feb 1934.

Provenance

Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (verso); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 45

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none (transmitted light photographs in IMAF folder).

Inscription: Historic mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right, graphite: "Colonel Seymour / –1739 / Portrait of his son, James Seymour, / the sporting artist, as a child". Historic secondary support, Recto: lower right, graphite: "cf pen drawing of same youth / inscr[ibed] behind "Young Seymour, the Colonel's Son" / in Coll: of Iolo Williams Esq. which / was Pub[lished in] Country Life. 24th Feb. 1934".

Collector's mark: Verso: stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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