Inspiration

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A full-length figure of a young man in seventeenth-century dress, seated in a carved wooden chair dated 1669, at a circular wooden table to the left. He sits resting his head despondently on one arm and gazing upward. There are several blank sheets, a quill and ink bottle, piles of books and a drinking flask on the table before him. He sits in a domestic interior setting with a floral screen in the background to the left, and crumpled sheets of paper lying on the patterned carpet beneath his feet.

Manchester Art Gallery

Manchester

Title

Inspiration

Date

1866

Medium

oil on panel

Measurements

H 30.4 x W 24.9 cm

Accession number

1917.317

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Leicester Collier, 1917

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

artist's inscription : : blc : artist's initials, date : J. D. W. 1866

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