Alfred Tidey
White Mice
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Ontvangt momenteel niet
Victoria and Albert Museum
Londen, Verenigd Koninkrijk
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- Het museum
Over het schilderij
It was rare for a miniature painter to paint original subject pictures. Samuel Shelley had painted many subject pictures in miniature, such as Macbeth and the Witches, and exhibited them at the Royal Academy in London. But he found that the public showed little interest these works, and many remained unsold. Alfred Tidey's experience with this rare subject picture, White Mice, was much the same as that of Shelley 60 years earlier. The work is reminiscent of the work of the 17th-century Spanish painter Bartolomé Murillo, but it is none the less an original composition. Tidey exhibited it in London at the Royal Academy in 1845, but while it was apparently admired, it never found a buyer. Miniature painting was too strongly connected in the public mind with the sentimental role of providing likenesses of loved ones.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Gegevens
- Inventarisnummer
- P.85-1935
Wat het toont
In de catalogus
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