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| Robert Shurlock (1772–1847) |
Artist:John Russell (British, Guildford 1745–1806 Hull)
Date:1801
Medium:Pastel on paper, laid down on canvas
Dimensions:23 3/4 x 17 3/8 in. (60.3 x 44.1 cm)
Classification:Pastels & Oil Sketches on Paper
Credit Line:Gift of Alan R. Shurlock, 1967
In 1800 Robert Shurlock (1772–1847) married John Russell’s daughter, Henrietta Ann Jane Russell (1775–1849), near the artist’s house in Guildford, Surrey. This pastel was likely completed shortly after the marriage, and the companion portrait of Henrietta with the couple’s first child is also in this gallery. Here Mr. Shurlock is a dashing man at the height of his youth, wearing a silk neck scarf and a double-breasted coat with brass buttons. The artist executed several other portraits for his daughter’s family, all dating to 1801.
Provenance
Robert Shurlock, Chertsey, near Guildford, Surrey (until d. 1847); his son, Dr. Manwaring Shurlock, Eynsham, and later Chertsey (1847–d. 1899); his niece, Emily Shurlock, Oxford (from 1899); her nephew, Alan R. Shurlock, Mill Valley, California (by 1966–67)
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