Half length portrait of Henry Angelo as a fencer, directed towards the right, facing and looking towards the left, with long hair and a double-breasted fencing jacket (formerly misidentified as a Guernsay jacket). He holds a foil in his right hand
Description:
Title from caption below image., After a portrait by Mather Brown in the National Portrait Gallery, London, oil on canvas, NPG 5310?, Questionable date of publication from ms. annotation preceding imprint: Oct. 1st, 1791., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on upper edge., and Mounted to 29 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd by B.F. Scott, No. 18 Broad Court, Long Acre
A scene of a joust in Henry Angelo's fencing academy. A portrait of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, painted by Mather Brown and gifted to Angelo by the sitter, hangs on the wall on the right
Alternative Title:
Mr. Henry Angelo's fencing academy
Description:
Title etched below image., For more information about the Saint-Georges portrait, see Grego., Also signed in image: Rowlandson 1791., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of lower half of imprint; imprint mostly legible., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 39 of volume 4 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Decr. 29[?], 1791, by H. Angelo, No. 16 Boulton Street, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Angelo, Henry, 1756-1835. and Saint-Georges, Joseph Bologne, chevalier de, 1745-1799,
