id: 123411 accession number: 1943.640 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.640 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:57.298000 Portrait of a Man, 1795. George Engleheart (British, 1752–1829). Watercolor on ivory in an original gold frame; framed: 7.6 x 6.2 cm (3 x 2 7/16 in.); sight: 7 x 5.7 cm (2 3/4 x 2 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection 1943.640 title: Portrait of a Man title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1795 creation date earliest: 1795 creation date latest: 1795 current location: creditline: The Edward B. Greene Collection copyright: --- culture: England, 18th century technique: watercolor on ivory in an original gold frame department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - British before 1800 type: Portrait Miniature find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * George Engleheart (British, 1752–1829) - artist George Engleheart was born in Kew to a German plaster modeler. Among his teachers were George Barret (1728/32–
1784) and Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), whose work Engleheart copied in miniature. One of Richard Cosway’s (1742–1821) greatest rivals and stylistically the closest to his work, Engleheart worked primarily in London until retiring in 1813, after which date he painted few miniatures. Engleheart’s miniatures have a more linear, labored manner than those of Cosway, whose painterly works were often left unfinished near the edges. Like Cosway, Engleheart often placed
his figures against a background of sky. But the firm draftsmanship (especially in the hair), heavy brows, and the use of grays and blacks for shadows are distinctive to Engleheart, who was celebrated for his ability to capture a sitter’s likeness closely. Engleheart’s productivity is documented by the fee book he kept between 1775 and 1813, which records an astounding total of 4,853 miniatures. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1773 and 1812, and was miniature painter to King George III from 1789. There are three fine Engleheart miniatures in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, all portraits of gentlemen dating near the turn of the century. --- measurements: Framed: 7.6 x 6.2 cm (3 x 2 7/16 in.); Sight: 7 x 5.7 cm (2 3/4 x 2 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America opening date: 1993-03-26T04:00:00 Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-October 17, 1993). title: Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives opening date: 2013-11-10T00:00:00 Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 10, 2013-February 16, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 202), The Cleveland Musuem of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 5, 2009 - April 6, 2009).', 'opening_date': '2009-01-05T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Sir Harry Waechter (1871-1929), Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe)) date: Before 1929 footnotes: citations: Leo Schidlof (1886-1966), Paris, France, sold to Edward B. Greene date: By 1929-1930 footnotes: citations: Edward B. Greene (1878-1957), Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1930-1943 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1943- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art. Portrait Miniatures: The Edward B. Greene Collection. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951. page number: Mentioned: p. 26, no. 11; Reproduced: pl. XVII url: https://archive.org/details/PortraitMiniatures/page/n63 Cleveland Museum of Art, and Alan Chong. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. page number: p. 286 url: Korkow, Cory, and Dario Robleto. Disembodied: Portrait Miniatures and Their Contemporary Relatives. 2013. page number: Mentioned: p.86 url: Korkow, Cory, and Jon L. Seydl. British Portrait Miniatures: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 2013. page number: Cat. no. 61, pp. 239-240 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.640/1943.640_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.640/1943.640_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.640/1943.640_full.tif