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A Graduate of Merton College, Oxford

National Gallery of Art · Painting

A Graduate of Merton College, Oxford

Attributed to George Knapton

Date
c. 1754/1755
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 127.7 x 102.1 cm (50 1/4 x 40 3/16 in.) framed: 150.2 x 124.5 x 10.2 cm (59 1/8 x 49 x 4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Accession number
1951.7.1
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Richard Southgate
Time span
1751 to 1775
Department
CAB
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • painted surface
  • male
  • portrait
  • British
  • British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries
  • Scholar
Provenance

W.S.B. Grimson by 1930.[1] (M. Knoedler & Co.), London; probably purchased from (M. Knoedler & Co.), New York, by Mrs. Henry C. Lancashire; by descent to her daughter, Mrs. Richard Southgate, Manchester, Massachusetts; gift to NGA, 1951. [1] A letter to Grimson about the picture, from the then Warden of Merton, in NGA curatorial files, is dated 20 March 1930.

NGA object ID 39762. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.