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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Neumans came to Scarborough about 1868 and set up as a portrait painter. He worked for a photographer while continuing to pursue his artistic career independently. This painting is interesting because of its resemblance to a photograph. Indeed, the artist may have deliberately created this resemblance in homage to photography's new fashionability. He employed the same pose and same colours (muted shades, over a sepia background) as might have been seen in a photograph of the sitter, and may possibly have copied the portrait straight from a photographic print. The sitter poses in a high-backed chair, upholstered in red velvet. He is smartly dressed, with impressive sideburns, and is depicted wearing an expression of benign authority. | Subjects: | Sir J. V. B.) portrait (Johnstone | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Neumans, Henri Philippe (unknown school, working in England, b. ca. 1845) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8458... | Go to resource |
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