Joseph Wright of Derby, 1780 - John Whetham of Kirklington - fine art print

Original artwork information as provided by the museum (© Copyright - by The J. Paul Getty Museum - The J. Paul Getty Museum)

A landowner and country gentleman, John Whetham of Kirklington poses beside a border collie in front of a rocky background. He wears a green coat, a yellow waistcoat, and a fur hat and sash and holds a hunting spear. This costume, unusual for an Englishman, is a loose adaptation of a Hungarian hussar's military dress. Worn by John Whetham for a ball in 1779, this type of masquerade dress was also fashionable for portraits at the time, both because it forwarded the social aspirations of the English aristocracy and because it was timeless, outlasting changing styles.

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• The poster print (canvas material): Our poster is a printed flat cotton canvas paper with a slightly rough surface texture. Please bear in mind, that depending on the size of the canvas poster print we add a white margin of around 2-6 cm round about the work of art, which facilitates the framing with your custom frame.
• Canvas print: The UV printed canvas material stretched on a wood stretcher frame. The printed canvas makes a attractive and appealing impression. Canvas prints are relatively low in weight, which implies that it is quite simple to hang your Canvas print without additional wall-mounts. Hence, a canvas print is suited for all types of walls.
• Acrylic glass print (with real glass coating on top): An print on acrylic glass, often labelled as a fine art print on plexiglass, changes the original artwork into amazing wall decoration and makes a viable alternative option to dibond or canvas fine art replicas. The work of art is printed with the help of state-of-the-art UV printing technology. The special effect of this are deep and rich colors. With a glossy acrylic glass fine art print contrasts plus smaller painting details will be more visible due to the delicate tonal gradation. The plexiglass with real glass coating protects your selected art replica against sunlight and heat for many years.
• Aluminium dibond: An Aluminium Dibond print is a print material with a true depth. For our Direct Aluminium Dibond option, we print your chosen artpiece on the surface of the white-primed aluminum material. The white & bright parts of the original artwork shimmer with a silk gloss, however without the glare. The colors are bright and luminous in the highest definition, the details of the print appear crisp and clear, and there’s a matte appearance you can literally feel. This direct UV print on aluminium is one of the most demanded entry-level products and is a truly contemporary way to showcase fine art reproductions, because it puts the viewer’s attention on the replica of the artwork.

About this article

John Whetham of Kirklington was painted by Joseph Wright of Derby. Nowadays, the piece of art is in the the The J. Paul Getty Museum's digital collection. We are pleased to state that the public domain artpiece is being supplied with courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Museum.: . Moreover, alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait with a side ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Joseph Wright of Derby was a artist, painter, whose style was primarily Baroque. The European artist was born in 1734 in Derby, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom and passed away at the age of 63 in the year 1797 in Derby, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom.

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