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Study for 'Patrons and Lovers of Art' NPG 792

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Pieter Christoffel Wonder

This is a preliminary study for Wonder's painting of an imaginary gallery hung with pictures from famous British collections. The portraits depict the main art collectors of the period. The composition celebrates the role of individual benefactors in the much celebrated foundation of the National Gallery (1824). On the left, kneeling in front of Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne, is George Watson Taylor (1771-1841), a collector of Italian Renaissance paintings. On the right, top hat in hand, is Sir John Murray (1768?-1827) who commissioned Wonder's painting.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.