Search

Preview AR preview Switch to Print Buy Hand Made Painting Switch to Digital Image Send
Guide Add to favorites Download Similars X-Ray Diaporama Stats

Captain George K. H. Coussmaker

samuel shelley (1750 –)

Discover Samuel Shelley: English miniaturist & watercolor painter renowned for exquisite portrait miniatures & Shakespearean scenes. Explore his legacy!

New Orleans Museum of Art (New Orleans, United States of America)

Explore 5,000 years of art at the New Orleans Museum of Art! Discover European masterpieces, Degas’ NOLA works & a stunning sculpture garden. Immerse yourself in Louisiana’s vibrant art scene.

In this miniature, Samuel Shelley captures a detail from a well-known portrait by one of the great eighteenth-century artists, Sir Joshua Reynolds. Reynolds’s full body portrait hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and depicts George K. H. Coussmaker as a striking young captain posed alongside his horse. This masterpiece, previously in the collection of the Vanderbilt family, required twenty-one modeling appointments for Coussmaker—and at least two more for the horse—in the winter of 1782. Shelley attended the London Royal Academy, where he was influenced by Reynolds, who served as the school’s president. This training led Shelley to develop an interest in full-sized paintings of historical subjects in addition to his work as a miniaturist.
By the WikiOO.org Editorial Team

About this artwork

WikiOO.org © WikiOO.org - All Rights Reserved