Mason Chamberlain
1727-1787
Ref: EFA0004
Portrait of Daniel Giles (1761-1831) as a boy, playing with his drum.
Oil on Canvas
32 x 45 inches
81.28 x 114.3 cm
1727-1787
Ref: EFA0004
Portrait of Daniel Giles (1761-1831) as a boy, playing with his drum.
Oil on Canvas
32 x 45 inches
81.28 x 114.3 cm
1727-1787
Ref: EFA0004
Portrait of Daniel Giles (1761-1831) as a boy, playing with his drum.
Oil on Canvas
32 x 45 inches
81.28 x 114.3 cm
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
By descent from the Family.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Mason Chamberlin RA (1727–1787) was an English portrait painter, who was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768. He was a student of Francis Hayman. He is best known for a portrait of Benjamin Franklin, commissioned by wealthy Virginian landowner and friend of Franklin's in London, Colonel Philip Ludwell III, and painted from life in 1762
He exhibited fifty works at the academy between 1769 and 1786. All were portraits. The subjects of most of them are unnamed in the catalogues but in 1771 he showed a full-length painting of Prince Edward and Princess Augusta and in 1774 one of Catharine Macaulay. He also showed twenty-two works at the Society of Artists and two at the Free Society of Artists.
ABOUT THE SUBJECT:
The artist has portrayed Daniel Giles as a child sitting on a rug playing with his drum with his hat beside him. The detail of the ornaments such as the patterned carpet, the folds of the curtain and the child's velvet clothing are highlighted. Daniel Giles Jnr. (portrayed) became the lawyer and Member of Parliament. His reputation was that of ‘a pleasant, hospitable bachelor’. Daniel Giles Snr. (b. 1725-1800) His father, a London merchant, rose to be The Governor of the Bank of England and purchased the Youngsbury Estate in Hertfordshire.
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