Charles Lee Lewes

Hone, Nathaniel, I (1718-1784)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1767-1784
Height:
71.0 cm  (27 15/16 in.)
Width:
61.0 cm  (24 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Barber Institute of Fine Arts (University of Birmingham)
    [Museum inv. no.: 59.6]

Description

Charles Lewes was an actor and singer who specialised in comic roles. He holds the music of a popular drinking song, 'The Wine Vault', made more suggestive here by the way some words are obscured. The informal pose, with Lewes leaning over the back of a chair as if engaging us in conversation, is in keeping with the music. Nathaniel Hone was a Dublin-born portrait and miniature painter best known for his satirical portrait of Joshua Reynolds, president of the Royal Academy.

People as subjects

Lewes, Charles Lee (1740-1803) (Musician portrait)

Musical works

The wine vaultlegible music notation

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Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

5544

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