Completed Portraits: British 19th C 7 Could the artist be Richard Hooke?

E. S. Robinson

Photo credit: Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives

Topic: Medium and support

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

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6 comments

Andrew Shore
Andrew Shore,

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

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Jacinto Regalado
Jacinto Regalado,

That's a useful link, Oliver. It supports the probability of our picture being after a photograph and of both images being by Protheroe.