- Title:
- Self-Portrait with His Father and His Brother
- Former Title(s):
- The Artist and His Brother Charles, After Woodcock-Shooting, With Their Father THomas Mortimer [1978, Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings, catalogue]
- Date:
- early 1760s
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.466
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.466FR
- Subject Terms:
- animals | bird | brothers | church | conversation piece | dead | devil | dogs (animals) | family | father | gesture | glove | hand | hounds (dogs) | hunting | landscape | men | painter | plinth | pointing | portrait | rifle | rural | self-portrait | shotgun | siblings | steeple | stone | town
- Associated People:
- Mortimer, Thomas (1697–1774), a mill owner and customs officer
Mortimer, John Hamilton (1740–1779), painter and etcher - Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:950
- Export:
- XML
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- JSON
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