Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Long Loans 2008-2009
Collection
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Master Crewe as Henry VIII
Lent from a private collection 2009
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
animals: mammals
aristocrat
boy
children
cloak
clothing and personal items
Crewe, Master
dog, King Charles spaniel
domestic
dress: fantasy/fancy
hand / hands on hip
hat
Henry VIII, King
historical, 16th century
individuals: male
interior - non-specific
interiors
named individuals
objects
people
portraits
royalty and social rank
smiling
society
standing
tunic
work and occupations
<p>18th-century portraits of women and children often feature their sitters in costumes evocative of literary, mythological or historical figures. Such fancy-dress was meant to flatter the sitter, elaborate on some aspect of their character, or to provide amusement or provocation for viewers. Here, Reynolds represents the three-year old John Crewe (1772¿–¿1835) as Henry VIII. The influential connoisseur Horace Walpole praised the way Reynolds had reduced the ‘swaggering and colossal haughtiness’ of the original image to the ‘boyish jollity of Master Crewe’.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2016</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
12 February 2005 – 25 September 2005
2005-09-25
12 February 2005 – 1 May 2005
2005-05-01
2005-02-12
Palazzo dei Diamanti (Ferrara, Italy)
26 May 2005 – 25 September 2005
2005-09-25
2005-05-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2005-02-12
Joshua Reynolds
Exhibition
11 September 2019 – 31 May 2020
2020-05-31
11 September 2019 – 16 February 2020
2020-02-16
2019-09-11
Musée du Luxembourg (Paris, France)
29 February 2020 – 31 May 2020
2020-05-31
2020-02-29
External
2019-09-11
Gainsborough to Turner: The Golden Age of English Painting
Loan-out
Master Crewe as Henry VIII
support: 1390 × 1110 mm
frame: 1585 × 1300 × 65 mm
Lent from a private collection 2009
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<p>18th-century portraits of women and children often feature their sitters in costumes evocative of literary, mythological or historical figures. Such fancy-dress was meant to flatter the sitter, elaborate on some aspect of their character, or to provide amusement or provocation for viewers. Here, Reynolds represents the three-year old John Crewe (1772¿–¿1835) as Henry VIII. The influential connoisseur Horace Walpole praised the way Reynolds had reduced the ‘swaggering and colossal haughtiness’ of the original image to the ‘boyish jollity of Master Crewe’.</p>
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actions: expressive actions: postures and motions animals: mammals aristocrat boy children cloak clothing and personal items Crewe, Master dog, King Charles spaniel domestic dress: fantasy/fancy hand / hands on hip hat Henry VIII, King historical, 16th century individuals: male interior - non-specific interiors named individuals objects people portraits royalty and social rank smiling society standing tunic work and occupations