Forward Portraits: British 19th C 6 comments Could the artist be Richard Hooke?
Photo credit: Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives
Group Leader: Ruth Brimacombe
Could the artist be Richard Hooke (1820-1908) and is this oil painting on a photographic base? http://tinyurl.com/yfbfn4d6
The sitter is Elisha Smith Robinson.
http://tinyurl.com/ycyex5e7
http://tinyurl.com/7p33wa8m
Jevon Thistlewood, Entry reviewed by Art UK
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Could it be a work by Thomas Protheroe? He's listed as an artist of a portrait of E. S. Robinson in this report in the Bristol Mercury (15 Mar 1886): https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000035/18860315/012/0006 (and see attached)
Protheroe is on Art UK here: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/protheroe-thomas-b-1847
And also likely to be the artist of this work too: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/protheroe-j-active-18921893
Thanks Andrew - I think this answers the question.
The portrait could certainly be after a photo.
The artist Thomas Protheroe passed away in London in 1906.
Some material here on Prothoroe's work both as Photographer and painter:
https://britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blogs/a-photograph-by-thomas
That's a useful link, Oliver. It supports the probability of our picture being after a photograph and of both images being by Protheroe.