Portrait of a man playing a guitar

Chinnery, George (1774-1852)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1830-1840

Height:

30.5 cm  (12 in.)

Width:

26.4 cm  (10 3/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Portrait of a man playing a six-string guitar; sheet music (partially legible) is visible beside him.

People as subjects

Pleyel, Ignace (1757-1831) (Musician)

Iconclass

31D14
adult man
48C7522
one person playing string instrument (plucked)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237] (six strings, eight tuning pegs)

Musical works

Sor, Fernando -- Fantaisie,‏ ‎guitar,‏ ‎no. 1, op. 7,‏ ‎C minor‏ legible music notation
Published in 1814, dedicated to Ignaz Pleyel

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

English portrait 1500-1830, November 18th-December 19th, Sabin Galleries (London: Sabin Galleries Ltd., 1970) 3.



Trumble, Angus. The finger: A handbook (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010) 184.



Paul Mellon's legacy: A passion for British art (New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art, 2007) v. 3.

RIdIM record id

6218