William Williams, 1770 - Portrait of a Boy, Probably of the Crossfield Family - fine art print

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William Williams was born in England, the son of a mariner. He lived through shipwreck and adventure in the Caribbean before arriving in Philadelphia at the age of twenty, by which time he was already earning a livelihood as a painter. He returned to England in 1776, and died there fifteen years later in an almshouse. Tradition holds that the solemn young man represented in this portrait is a member of the Crossfield family. He holds the equipment for the game of battledore and shuttlecock, a decorous eighteenth-century version of badminton. In this picture, one of Williams's best, the rendering of the rocks, the verdure, and the distant view reminds us that the artist was also a painter of theatrical scenery.

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The 18th century artwork Portrait of a Boy, Probably of the Crossfield Family was made by the artist William Williams in 1770. The 250 years old original version of the piece of art had the following size 52 1/4 x 35 3/4 in (134,7 x 91 cm) and was painted on the medium oil on canvas. Nowadays, the artpiece belongs to the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Victor Wilbour Memorial Fund, 1965 (license - public domain). The creditline of the artwork is: Victor Wilbour Memorial Fund, 1965. What is more, the alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait and has an image ratio of 2 : 3, which implies that the length is 33% shorter than the width.

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