Artist: Henry Walton Painting: A Gentleman,Said to Be mr Richard Bendyshe with his Favorite Hunter in a Landscape Introduction: Oil on canvas
19 1/4 by 23 1/4 in 48.9 by 59.1 cm (mk59)
Portrait of a young woman, possibly Miss Nettlethorpe Painting ID:: 93260
Artist: Henry Walton Painting: Portrait of a young woman, possibly Miss Nettlethorpe Introduction: circa 1770(1770)
Medium oil on panel
Dimensions 23.5 x 17.8 cm (9.3 x 7 in)
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British Painter ,
c 1746-1813
He studied in London under Johan Zoffany c. 1769, after which he completed his training at the Maiden Lane Academy. It was probably Zoffany who introduced Walton to the conversation piece, a genre in which he was to specialize. The Cricket Scene at Harrow School (1771; priv. col., see 1963 exh. cat., no. 1) reveals Walton's debt to Zoffany, but it also shows him to be an exceptional colourist and able to compose his figures with a sense of rare warmth and intimacy. By c. 1778, when he painted the Rev. Charles Tyrrell with his Family
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