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Paintings: G0283

Title

Sir John Hare

Technique

Oil on canvas

Subject

Character

Lorde Kildare : A Quiet Rubber

Artist

Date

1908

Dimensions

Height: 118.7cm
Width: 91.4cm

Inscription/signature

"H Riviere 1908" (black paint b. l.)

Provenance

Presented by 152 members, 1908

Other number

CKA 598

Exhibition history

1908 London, R.A. (898)

Hare as Lord Kildare has heavy character make-up, with white hair brushed up. He wears grey trousers with a creamy yellow band at the waist, a dark brown cut-away coat with double row of large brass buttons, and a yellow waistcoat with gold buttons. He sits in a red-brown padded arm-chair.
Coghlan's comedietta, adapted from a French farce “La Partie de Picquet”, was first given at the Court Theatre on 8 January 1876, with Hare as the impecunious Lord Kildare.
In the Garrick Club Library there is a volume which contains some of the correspondence regarding the commissioning of this painting, as well as a list of subscribers and a seating plan and menu for the dinner that was held for Sir John Hare on March 15th 1908.
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