Study of a Man Gazing Down

George Richmond

1840–80 · Pen and brown ink · Drawings and Prints

Study of a Man Gazing Down — George Richmond

Richmond's pen and ink drawing may represent his friend Samuel Palmer's cousin, John Giles (1810-1880). The artist was a prolific and successful portraitist, and is known to have painted that subject reading in a work now in a private collection.

Artist
George Richmond
Date
1840–80
Medium
Pen and brown ink
Department
Drawings and Prints
Credit line
Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013

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