Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1800s.
The sitter, a member of the legal profession, sits at ease at his desk upon which are legal documents, a quill pen in an inkstand and various books on the law, including 'Coke Upon Littleton' and 'Blackstone's Commentaries'.
He exhibited at the Royal Academy as early as 1788. He afterwards went to Italy, and was studying in Rome in 1796. Subsequently he visited Holland in order to study from the Dutch masters.
Reinagle exhibited portraits and landscapes in oil at the Royal Academy, of which he became an associate in 1814, and an academician in 1823.
PLEASE NOTE: There is also a similarity to the work of the American artist REMBRANDT PEALE (1778-1860). Peale was an artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale's style was influenced by French Neoclassicism after a stay in Paris in his early thirties.
SIZE: 40.75 x 39.75 inc. frame.
PROVENANCE: Private Collection, Somerset.
Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art has dated this piece to the 1800s.
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Portrait of a Lawyer C. 1820: Circle of Reinagle.
