Head and shoulders to left in dark blue coat, yellow waistcoat, buff neckcloth and shirt-frill heightened with white chalk; reddish-yellow hair carefully dressed, pale brown eyebrows, blue-grey eyes, double chin, fresh complexion; pale blue curtain in background. The drawing is undated but, judging from the sitter's apparent age, should be placed at about 1790. It may even have been intended to celebrate the second volume of his dictionary of engravers published in 1786, the first of its kind to appear in england. Humphry became blind and ceased to paint in 1797. A letter from humphry in the hornby library, liverpool, undated but addressed to strutt's son, mentions 'the portrait i painted of him' and asks for impressions, especially finished and unfinished proofs in various plate stages, of ogborne's engraving. Humphry wished to include them in a projected memoir of his life, never achieved but known from a rough draft. Object Type: drawing. Date: circa 1791–1797. Dimensions: 19.5 × 17 in (49.5 × 43.1 cm). Medium: pastel on paper mounted on canvas. Collection: National Portrait Gallery. Ozias Humphrey, Joseph Strutt, c. 1791–1797, National Portrait Gallery, London NPG 323
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