Cleveland Museum of Art
Head of a Bearded Man Gazing to His Left
William MulreadyLinkedCulture matchlcp-08d9cca3bf83
- Date
- 1859
- Medium
- pen and brown ink
- Culture
- England, 19th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 170719
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
For William Mulready, drawing was a lifelong preoccupation. This sheet was drawn from a model in the Royal Academy’s life school when the artist was 73. He was one of the Academy’s most devoted teachers, positioning the model for his students and then drawing alongside them. Closely observed and meticulously crafted, the work attests to Mulready’s consummate skill as a draftsman, and the weather-beaten face of the male model is as arresting today as it was in Victorian London. This instantly recognizable model was the subject of at least one other drawing, titled Head of an Old Man , in the collection of Tate Britain today.
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- Credit line
- Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz
- Provenance
- William Drummond, London | 1984: (Shepherd Gallery, New York) | ?-2013: Helen and Albert Borowitz, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | 2013-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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