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Miniatures: G0694
Title
William Powell
Technique
Watercolour
Subject
Character
Posthumus Leonatus : Cymbeline
Artist
Spicer, Henry [ Attributed to ]
Dimensions
Height: 3.3cm
Width: 2.9cm
Width: 2.9cm
Other materials
Watercolour on paper
Inscription/signature
"the / tragedian / miniature / engd and Miss / Pope" (?) (pen and ink on verso)
Provenance
Unknown, but acquired before 1909
Other number
RW 427X (artist unknown)
CKA 427X (artist unknown, in character)
CKA 427X (artist unknown, in character)
Exhibition history
? 1768 London, S. A., Special (108) "Portrait of Mr. Powell: in miniature" by Henry Spicer
Related works
Christie's 26 November 1986 (34) (three-quarter-length) seated to right,looking to front, holding playbill for “Cymbeline” and “The Oxonian”.
Powell wears a pink doublet with frills.
The Christie's miniature celebrates the Royal Command performance at Covent Garden on 28 December 1767, when Powell played Posthumus. The elder George Colman's “The Oxonian in Town” was the afterpiece. George III and Queen Charlotte attended. It seems likely that both the Christie's miniature and G0694 show Powell as Posthumus. The miniature (or another version of it) may have been the miniature by Henry Spicer exhibited at the Society of Artists in 1768.
The Christie's miniature celebrates the Royal Command performance at Covent Garden on 28 December 1767, when Powell played Posthumus. The elder George Colman's “The Oxonian in Town” was the afterpiece. George III and Queen Charlotte attended. It seems likely that both the Christie's miniature and G0694 show Powell as Posthumus. The miniature (or another version of it) may have been the miniature by Henry Spicer exhibited at the Society of Artists in 1768.
