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.