'Old Tom Thumb', Richard Brent (1682–1790)

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Richard Brent was a pedlar nicknamed Tom Thumb who worked the Bristol and Bath area. He married four times, had 32 children, and died in Bristol, blind and deaf, aged about 110.

Thomas Barker painted old ‘Tom Thumb’ at least three times. Bath ladies and gentlemen were so enthusiastic about this portrait that they raised money to give the pedlar a weekly income in his old age.

Victoria Art Gallery

Bath

Title

'Old Tom Thumb', Richard Brent (1682–1790)

Date

1789

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 61 x W 43.2 cm

Accession number

BATVG : P : 1909.10

Acquisition method

gift from Alfred Jones, 1909

Work type

Painting

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