Portrait of Mrs. Marryat
John Cox Dillman Engleheart · 1800/62
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- Framed: 11.8 × 7.8 cm (4 5/8 × 3 1/16 in.)
- Currently held
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Movement
- Neoclassicism
Portrait of Mrs. Marryat is a quietly commanding work — intimate in scale yet assured in its rendering of character, with the soft luminosity typical of early nineteenth-century British portraiture at its most refined. John Cox Dillman Engleheart came from a distinguished artistic family; his uncle George Engleheart was one of the most sought-after miniaturists of the Georgian era, and that lineage shows. Working in oils rather than miniature, John brought a jeweller's attention to detail to full-scale portraiture, layering thin glazes to achieve the delicate skin tones and fabric textures that define his best work. His sitters tended to be prosperous middle-class and gentry families, captured with a warmth that stops well short of flattery. The painting is held in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, one of relatively few works by Engleheart to have entered a major American institution. This hand-painted oil reproduction is made on canvas using traditional techniques, preserving the tonal subtlety and brushwork that give the original its particular presence — the kind of quality that a print simply cannot carry.
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