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This is the only known portrait drawing of Purcell, and the earliest drawing of an English composer to survive. The sketch was almost certainly taken from life and at one time belonged to the eighteenth-century musicologist Dr Charles Burney.
Title
Henry Purcell
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 58.4 x W 53.3 cm
Accession number
2150
Acquisition method
Bequeathed by William Barclay Squire, 1927
Work type
Painting
