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- Title:
Reverend Dr. Charles Symmons
- Former Title(s):
Portrait of a clergyman in his academical dress [1794, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- 1794
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- Support (PTG): 30 3/8 x 25 1/4 inches (77.2 x 64.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed, lower left: "Rev Doc [??] | [?] Symmons"
Signed and dated, lower left: "W Beechy Pinxit | 1794"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.7.6
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1976.7.6FR
- Subject Terms:
- clergyman | costume | curtain | man | poet | portrait
- Associated People:
- Symmons, Charles (1749–1826), poet and biographer
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:250
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Paul Mellon's Legacy, a passion for British art. [large print labels] , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 3, N5220 M552 +P381 2007, Mellon Shelf (YCBA) [YCBA]
William Roberts, Sir William Beechey, R. A., Duckworth and Co., New York; London, 1907, pp. 44, 46, 81, NJ18 B375 R63 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Ol'ga Speranskaja, Portret getmana platova, Istorija odnoj nahodki [ le portrait de l'hetman platov Histoire d'une trouvaille ] , Pinakoteka, no. 5, 1998, p. 44-47, Not Available at Yale