William Luson Thomas, 1862 - Grandfather's Portrait, fromIllustrated London News - fine art print

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In a rustic kitchen a farmer examines a portrait that his young son has drawn on a slate as the rest of the family look on admiringly. Knight's paintings of rural families and boys at play relied upon genre types developed a few decades before by David Wilkie and William Mulready. Knight here echoes a theme found in the biographies of famous artists--Vasari, for example, recorded how Giotto, when a shepherd boy, drew pictures of his flock on rocks that attracted the attention of the Florentine painter Cimabue, who then took the youth on as an apprentice. This print, executed by the leading engraver Thomas, was published one year before Knight’s early death at the age of forty, and the related oil painting is at the Tunbridge Wells Museum and Gallery.

This over 150 years old artpiece was painted by William Luson Thomas. The artwork was painted with the following size: Image: 9 1/8 × 12 1/2 in (23,2 × 31,7 cm) Sheet: 9 3/4 × 12 15/16 in (24,8 × 32,8 cm). Wood engraving was used by the British artist as the medium of the piece of art. This artpiece is in the the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital art collection, which is located in New York City, New York, United States of America. This public domain work of art is included, courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Donato Esposito, 2015. : Gift of Donato Esposito, 2015. Furthermore, alignment is landscape with a side ratio of 4 : 3, which means that the length is 33% longer than the width.

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