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L'amateur chez lui (The Collector at Home)

Image credit: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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In this portrait of C. Drury E. Fortnum, Esq., DCL, he is seen in his house at Stanmore, surrounded by some of the collections he would later give or bequeath to the Ashmolean. He holds a jug of Medici porcelain; on the desk is one of his Palissy figures, a bronze of St John the Baptist and a bronze candlestick, while on the chair is propped up the 'Virgin and Child' by Pintoricchio.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Oxford

Title

L'amateur chez lui (The Collector at Home)

Date

exhibited 1893–1894

Medium

oil on panel

Measurements

H 38 x W 56 cm

Accession number

WA1899.3

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by C. D. E. Fortnum, 1899

Work type

Painting

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Beaumont Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 2PH England

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