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- Title:
George Robertson
- Former Title(s):
Portrait of an artist. [1776, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- 1776
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 44 1/4 x 34 5/8 inches (112.4 x 87.9 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.165
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.165FR
- Subject Terms:
- artist | book | drawing | easel | flat | green (color) | ink | landscape painter | man | papers | pen | portrait | sketchbook | sketching | tree | yellow
- Associated People:
- Robertson, George (c.1748–1788), landscape painter
- Access:
- Not on view
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:676
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