Portrait of Thomas Oldham Barlow, 1886

Portrait of Thomas Oldham Barlow, 1886

1886

J. E. Millais (1829–1896)

Oil on canvas

100.5 x 117 cm

Barlow, Thomas Oldham (1824–1889), English etcher and engraver

[F. G. Stephens], "Mr. Thomas Oldham Barlow, R.A.," The Athenaeum, no. 3244, Dec. 28, 1889, p. 902: "There are some good portraits of Barlow, the most important, and since it was altered the happiest, of which is that by Sir J. Millais, which we all remember seeing at the Academy a few years since."

George Dunlop Leslie, The Inner Life of The Royal Academy, with an account of its schools and exhibitions principally in the reign of Queen Victoria (London, 1914; reprinted New York: Benjamin Blom, 1971), p. 206: "Millais's portrait of him is wonderfully like the man in his later years. Millais and Barlow were great friends, but it is curious that Barlow was not at all pleased with this portrait, just as Cousins was dissatisfied with his own portrait by Frank Holl.".

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Gallery Oldham; gift from John Joseph Jones, 1888

January 15, 2017

ArtUK

Millais had previously painted Barlow as the natural historian John Gould (1804–1881) in a worked titled The Ornithologist (or The Ruling Passion), 1885, Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow.

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