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Anthony Highmore
(c. 1745-1747)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
126.2 × 101.0 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1947
Gallery location
18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
This portrait is believed to represent Highmore’s son, Anthony Highmore (1718–99). Anthony studied painting with his father but chose not to become a full-time artist. At twenty-one he inherited
an estate at Effingham, Surrey and embarked on the life of a gentleman farmer, later marrying Anna Ellis in 1740, with whom he had fifteen children. It is in this role as a country gentleman that Highmore’s eminent London-dwelling father has shown him. Highmore junior maintained an interest in landscape, sometimes tutoring and occasionally selling works until 1761, when he gave
up art altogether and turned to his father-in-law’s vocation, theology.
Artwork Details
Accession Number
1759-4
Department
International Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Portraits
Subjects (specific)
coats (garments) men (male humans) menswear single-sitter portraits three-quarter views velvet (fabric weave) waistcoats (garments) wigs
Movements
Rococo