Paintings: G0081

Title

Barton Booth

Technique

Oil on canvas

Subject

Booth, Barton

Artist

Vanderbank, John

Dimensions

Height: 77cm
Width: 64cm

Provenance

Charles Mathews

Other number

Mathews 87 or 118 (artist unknown)
RW/CKA 36

Exhibition history

1833 London, Queen's Bazaar, Oxford Street, "Mr Mathews's Gallery of Theatrical Portraits" (87 or 118)

Engraving history

Gerard Vandergucht as frontispiece to Booth's "Life and Poems" (1733), line 15.6x8.9 (to r., oval on pedestal) Anon. For the "Universal Magazine" pub. J. Hinton, line 15.9x9.5

Literature

Patmore, p.272 (as by Vanderbank)

Booth, shown half-length in oval, wears a brown coat, a white shirt and stock, and a grey wig.