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L'Amante inquiète (copy 1)
Entered March 2019

 

Warrington (Cheshire), Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, inv. WAGMG 1877.72

Oil on canvas

26 x 21 cm

 

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Jeannette

 

PROVENANCE

Warrington (Cheshire), in the possession of Thomas Robson (1798-1871; painter). Given to the museum in 1877.

 

REMARKS

This painting is the work of Thomas Robson, a native of Warrington, who was a descendant on his maternal side from William Hogarth. Robson served in London as an assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence and then returned to his native city. One of his specialties was the copying of Old Master paintings but, as this copy after Watteau’s L'Amante inquiète demonstrates, he used engravings as his models. How this painting came to be identified as a copy after Pater and why it bears the title “Jeannette” are not known.

 

 

 

 

 

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