Portrait of a man, probably a self-portrait

Barron, Hugh (1745-1791)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1768

Height:

73.7 cm  (29 in.)

Width:

62.2 cm  (24 1/2 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Painting presents a young man in aristocratic attire holding a violin, beside a partially visible music stand with books and pages evident only from back. The artist was known both as a portrait painter and a violinist.

People as subjects

Barron, Hugh (1745-1791) (Musician)

Iconclass

31D14
adult man
48C751(+27)
one person with musical instrument, not playing ( + portrait, self-portrait of artist)
61B2(HUGH BARRON)11
historical person (HUGH BARRON) - historical person (HUGH BARRON) portrayed alone

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Davis, Lucy. Joshua Reynolds: Experiments in paint (London: The Wallace Collection, 2015) 58-59, fig. 39.



Plumb, J. H. The pursuit of happiness: A view of life in Georgian England: an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 1977) 46, 99, no. 74.

RIdIM record id

6219