Details
English School circa 1850
Portrait of a boy, seated half length, wearing blue Costume, holding a hoop and a recorder
oil on canvas
27 x 22in (68.6 x 55.8cm)
Portrait of a boy, seated half length, wearing blue Costume, holding a hoop and a recorder
oil on canvas
27 x 22in (68.6 x 55.8cm)
Provenance
Mrs. Marjorie Schofield
Literature
Percy M. Young,Sir Arthur Sullivan,London,Dent, 1971, p51, illustrated Young (Loc. cit.) identifies the sitter as the young composer aged 10 years.No further documentary evidence appears to confirm this identification however.