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Portrait of a Gentleman by Richard Livesay #1805376

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Portrait of a Gentleman  by Richard Livesay #1805376
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Portrait of a Gentleman and His Dog by Richard Livesay </em></td>
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Richard Livesay, portrait and landscape painter, was a pupil of Benjamin West, and commenced his career in London, exhibiting for the first time at the Royal Academy in 1776. Between 1777 and 1785 he lodged with Hogarth's widow in Leicester Fields, and executed for her a series of facsimiles of drawings by Hogarth, among them the seven illustrating the well-known ?Tour,? published in 1782. Being engaged by West to copy pictures at Windsor, Livesay went to reside there about 1790, and gave lessons in drawing to some of the
royal children. While at Windsor he was much employed in painting portraits of young Etonians, generally small whole-lengths, and an interesting picture by him of ?Eton Boys going to Montem? is in the possession of the college, to which it was presented by the Duke of Newcastle in 1891. In 1796, having been appointed drawing-master to the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth, Livesay removed to
Portsea; there he painted some of the English warships and their French prizes, and in 1800 published a set of four plates of the reviews of the Isle of Wight volunteers, aquatinted by Wells. On an address card which he issued at that time he described himself as ?Portrait, Landscape, and Marine Painter, Drawing-Master to the Royal Academy, Portsmouth, 61 Hanover Street, Portsea.? Livesay painted a large picture of the review of the Hertfordshire volunteers by the king in Hatfield Park, 13 June 1800, which was engraved by J. C. Stadler, and now hangs in Lord Salisbury's ...
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#: 3019</td>
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<tr><td>Condition:Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:18th Century</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:UK</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:Richard Livesay</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:19.69</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:15.75</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Portrait of a Gentleman by Richard Livesay</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Traditional</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:Oil on Canvas</td></tr>

<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
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