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Man in an Indian Landscape

Maker (British, 1735-1786)
ClassificationsPAINTINGS
Dateca. 1773
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions50 × 39 1/2 in. (127 × 100.3 cm.) 58 3/4 × 50 × 2 1/4 in. (149.2 × 127 × 5.7 cm.)
DescriptionIn this portrait of a man, the sitter is standing three-quarter length in an open landscape. In the right distance is a pavilion surrounded by pillars, employed for Indian palaces of many British residents of India. The sitter is dressed in a bright blue suit with oversized brass buttons, a white neckcloth and French lace collar and cuffs.
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Status
Not on view
Bibliography
Object number53.3
Richard Cumberland
George Romney
ca. 1771
Object number: 44.103
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Thomas Lawrence
n.d.
Object number: 44.102
Sketchbook [p. 38]
John Henry Dearle
ca. 1876
Object number: 2000.5.1838.38
Indians Making Canoes (Montagnais Indians)
Winslow Homer
1895
Object number: 83.8.24
Hon. Emma (Crewe) Cunliffe, later Emma Cunliffe-Offley
Thomas Lawrence
ca.1809-1830
Object number: 17.29
Card table
Unknown, American
1790-1810
Object number: 91.288.6
Sir William Miller, Lord Glenlee
Henry Raeburn
ca.1805-1815
Object number: 8.1
Catherine (Halhead) Burton
George Romney
1789
Object number: 25.17