Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Chantrey Bequest
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/frederick-brown-66" aria-label="More by Frederick Brown" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Frederick Brown</a>
Portrait Painter
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1940
actions: postures and motions
adults
artist, painter
arts and entertainment
Brown, Frederick
fine arts and music
hand / hands on hip
man, old
named individuals
objects
paintbrush
people
picture
portraits
self-portraits
standing
work and occupations
painting oil paint canvas
Portrait of the Painter
support: 930 × 660 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1940
<p><b>N04702</b> SELF-PORTRAIT 1932
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<br/>Inscr. ‘F.B. 1932’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 36 1/4×25 3/4 (92×65·5).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1933.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> N.E.A.C., winter 1932 (129); R.A., 1933 (374).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Allan Gwynne-Jones, <i>Portrait Painters</i>, 1950, p.31, repr. pl.126.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Frank Rutter, <i>Modern Masterpieces</i>, n.d., p.39; <i>Burlington Magazine</i>, LXXXII, 1943, p.143.</p>
<p>One of a number of self-<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portraits</span></a>. This was painted in the artist's studio at Ormond House, Richmond, and shows two <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> then in his collection, a nude by Ethel Walker and Tonks's ‘Temptation of Eve’ (two children). A closely related self-portrait of the same size, signed and dated 1926, shows the artist without spectacles and Gwen John's ‘Self-Portrait’ (now in the Tate Gallery, <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/john-self-portrait-n05366" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05366</span></a>) in place of the Ethel Walker; it is now in the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull (repr. <i>Artwork</i>, No.23, 1930, p.151).</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I</p>
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2004-10-06T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults artist, painter arts and entertainment Brown, Frederick fine arts and music hand / hands on hip man, old named individuals objects paintbrush people picture portraits self-portraits standing work and occupations