Sujet
Portrait of James Christie (1730-1803), 1778. Creator: Thomas Gainsborough.
Légende
Portrait of James Christie (1730-1803), 1778. Additional Info: A charming and persuasive speaker, James Christie founded the fine arts auction house in London that still bears his name. He was a close friend and neighbor of Thomas Gainsborough, who painted this portrait. Gainsborough depicted the cultivated auctioneer leaning on one of the artist's own landscape paintings and holding a piece of paper in his right hand, perhaps an auction list. Christie wears a sober brown frock suit, a white linen shirt, and a formal wig. On the little finger of his left hand is a signet ring, and two pendant seals dangle from watches worn about his waist. His dress and jewelry befit a cosmopolitan English gentleman of the 1770s.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM24A63_403
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
56,0Mo (2,5Mo) / 33,4cm x 42,0cm / 3943 x 4960 (300dpi)