St Dominic

Image credit: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Made in emulation of mid-fourteenth-century devotional images, this painting was probably painted towards the beginning of the nineteenth century. St Dominic (1170–1221) founded the Order of Friars Preachers or Dominican order and was canonised in 1234; the lily refers to his purity.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Oxford

Title

St Dominic

Date

c. 1800–1820

Medium

tempera (?) & gilding on panel

Measurements

H 25 x W 18 cm

Accession number

WA1892.9

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Revd Greville John Chester, 1892

Work type

Painting

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