Artist: Alphonse Legros (French-British, 1837-1911)
Subject: Sir Edward John Poynter (1836-1919)
Date: 1877
Title: Portrait of Sir Edward J. Poynter
Object type: Etching
Medium: Etching on paper
Dimensions (framed): 19.5 inches height × 15.4 inches width
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age. Light foxing present near bottom of etching.
Description:
This 1877 etching by Alphonse Legros depicts Sir Edward John Poynter (1836-1919), the British painter, designer, and draughtsman who served as Director of the National Gallery (1894-1904) and President of the Royal Academy (1896-1918). Legros succeeded Poynter as Slade Professor of Fine Art at University College London in 1876, the year before this portrait was executed. It is matted in grey textured board/fabric matte under glass in a patinated metal frame. Condition is good, with light foxing visible near the bottom of the etching.
Alphonse Legros was a French-born British painter, etcher, sculptor, and medallist. He was born in Dijon, France, in 1837. In 1851 his family moved to Paris, where he worked as a scene-painter for opera sets and studied at the École Impériale de Dessin under Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran. Legros first attracted attention at the Paris Salon of 1857 with a profile portrait of his father. He became closely associated with Gustave Courbet, James McNeill Whistler, and Édouard Manet, and was hailed by Charles Baudelaire as an important figure in the "new realism" movement.
Encouraged by Whistler, Legros moved to London in 1863. He was appointed teacher of etching at the South Kensington School of Art and in 1876 became Slade Professor of Fine Art at University College London, succeeding Sir Edward John Poynter. He held this position until 1892, revitalizing British drawing and printmaking during a period of low ebb. Legros was a founding member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. He died in 1911 in Watford, Hertfordshire.
Museum Holdings (Selected):
British Museum, London
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Cleveland Museum of Art
Mead Art Museum (Amherst College)
Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand)
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Artist: Alphonse Legros (French-British, 1837-1911)
Subject: Sir Edward John Poynter (1836-1919)
Date: 1877
Title: Portrait of Sir Edward J. Poynter
Object type: Etching
Medium: Etching on paper
Dimensions (framed): 19.5 inches height × 15.4 inches width
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age. Light foxing present near bottom of etching.
Description:
This 1877 etching by Alphonse Legros depicts Sir Edward John Poynter (1836-1919), the British painter, designer, and draughtsman who served as Director of the National Gallery (1894-1904) and President of the Royal Academy (1896-1918). Legros succeeded Poynter as Slade Professor of Fine Art at University College London in 1876, the year before this portrait was executed. It is matted in grey textured board/fabric matte under glass in a patinated metal frame. Condition is good, with light foxing visible near the bottom of the etching.
Alphonse Legros was a French-born British painter, etcher, sculptor, and medallist. He was born in Dijon, France, in 1837. In 1851 his family moved to Paris, where he worked as a scene-painter for opera sets and studied at the École Impériale de Dessin under Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran. Legros first attracted attention at the Paris Salon of 1857 with a profile portrait of his father. He became closely associated with Gustave Courbet, James McNeill Whistler, and Édouard Manet, and was hailed by Charles Baudelaire as an important figure in the "new realism" movement.
Encouraged by Whistler, Legros moved to London in 1863. He was appointed teacher of etching at the South Kensington School of Art and in 1876 became Slade Professor of Fine Art at University College London, succeeding Sir Edward John Poynter. He held this position until 1892, revitalizing British drawing and printmaking during a period of low ebb. Legros was a founding member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. He died in 1911 in Watford, Hertfordshire.
Museum Holdings (Selected):
British Museum, London
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Cleveland Museum of Art
Mead Art Museum (Amherst College)
Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand)
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
