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Title: Illustrated catalogue of the art and literary property collected by the late Henry G. Marquand
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: American Art Association Kirby, Thomas Ellis, 1846-1924 Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909
Subjects: Marquand, Henry G
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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! Ca.Bosion JOHN HOPPNER, R.A. 1759-1810 29— Portrait of Young Shelley This justly famous portrait represents the head and bust of a boy, the body beingturned to the right, while the head, but for a slight inclination to the left, is full face. Theblack cloth jacket is fastened over the chest with a double row of buttons, and the loosecollar of the white shirt overhangs the shoulders. From the broad opening rises a long,tapering neck on which the beautiful head is finely poised. Soft wisps of brown hair fallover the high forehead; the brows are arched, the eyes large and open; the nose is long,straight, and broad; the upper lip full, and very curving at the corners; and the chinsweetly rounded. The boys face has a rapt expression of wistfulness and far-off searching.The background of the picture is a steely blue, darkening towards the top of the canvas. Hoppner shared with Lawrence the favor of the court and public of his time,securing a particular reputation for his rendering of wo

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