Welcome to the Spencer Collection
Results: 1
-
View: Detail
-
-
- Thomas Lawrence
1769–1830
active: England, United Kingdom
- Hamlet, 1800s
- Where object was made: England, United Kingdom
- oil on canvas
- Canvas/Support: 85.7 x 66 cm
Canvas/Support: 33 11/16 x 26 in - Source unknown
- Not on display
- 0000.0763
- Thomas Lawrence
- Open page with bookmarkable url
- Description
-
Full-length of portrait of a young man (identified as Hamlet) wearing a white collar with ruffles and a medal on a ribbon. He is wearing a hat and carrying a bulbous object (possibly a skull) in his left hand. The horizon line is low, with only one-fifth of the right side being land. On the left side there are buildings in profile against the setting/rising sun in the bottom third of the image. The background (sky) is a dark neutral color.