Portrait of Thomas Carlyle
1834-1903
James Abbott McNeill Whistler Art Locations 1872-73
67.32 x 56.50 inches / 171 x 143.5 cm
Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum
Painting ID:: 4580
Sir William Orpen mk50
1872-73
Glasgow Museums Portrait of Thomas Carlyle Irish
1878-1931
Sir William Orpen Location
Irish painter. He attended the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin (1891-7), and the Slade School of Art, London (1897-9), there winning the composition prize of 1899 with The Play Scene from Hamlet (Houghton Hall, Norfolk). He became a friend of Augustus John and joined the New English Art Club. From very early years he had been an impassioned student of the Old Masters, and he went to Paris with John in 1899 to see Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa (Paris, Louvre). In the following years his perception of their works
