Old Master & 19th Century Paintings
Old Master & 19th Century Paintings
John Wood
Self-portrait, half-length, showing the artist seated holding a porte-crayon
Lot Closed
September 20, 12:33 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
John Wood
London 1801–1870
Self-portrait, half-length, showing the artist seated holding a porte-crayon
signed and dated lower right: John Wood. Pinxt / 1831
oil on canvas
unframed: 76.5 x 63.4 cm.; 30⅛ x 25 in.
framed: 87 x 74 cm.; 34¼ x 29⅛ in.
By direct descent to the artist’s great-great-great nephew until sold in 2022.
London, Royal Academy, 1831, no. 383 (as ‘Portrait of an artist’).
The London artist John Wood trained at both Henry Sass's School of art in Bloomsbury and later at the Royal Academy Schools. His talents during his tutelage at the latter were rewarded with a golden medal for painting in 1825. He exhibited portraits, historical and biblical scenes at every Royal Academy exhibition between the years 1823 and 1859, with his last work exhibited there in 1862. His portraiture in general takes great inspiration from the paintings of Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (1769–1830), the leading society painter of the period and President of the Royal Academy during Wood's studies there.
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