Portrait of Richard Heber
| Portrait of Richard Heber | |
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| Artist | John Singleton Copley |
| Year | 1782 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, portrait painting |
| Dimensions | 165.7 cm × 130 cm (65.2 in × 51 in) |
| Location | Yale Centre for British Art, Connecticut |
Portrait of Richard Heber is a 1782 portrait painting by the Anglo-American artist John Singleton Copley.[1] It depicts Richard Heber at the age of eight, holding a cricket bat. The picture was commissioned by his father the Reverend Reginald Heber.[2]
Heber grew up to be a Member of Parliament and a noted book collector. The Boston-born Copley has arrived in Britain in 1774 and settled there for the remainder of his career. Like his contemporary Benjamin West's The Cricketers (1763), it features a depiction of the game of cricket, growing in popularity amongst the British elite.[3]
Today the painting is in the Yale Centre for British Art as part of the Paul Mellon Collection.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Prown p.294
- ^ https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5045
- ^ Riess p.102
- ^ https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/richard-heber-246586
Bibliography
[edit]- Kamensky, Jane. A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.
- Prown, Jules David. John Singleton Copley: In England, 1774-1815. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966.
- Riess, Steven A. Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis, 2015
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