Arthur William à Beckett; Edwin Linley Samborne; Thomas ('F. Anstey') Guthrie

Arthur William à Beckett; Edwin Linley Samborne; Thomas ('F. Anstey') Guthrie, by Harry Furniss, 1880s-1900s -NPG 3619 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Arthur William à Beckett; Edwin Linley Samborne; Thomas ('F. Anstey') Guthrie

by Harry Furniss
Pen and ink with traces of pencil, 1880s-1900s
8 1/2 in. x 6 3/4 in. (215 mm x 170 mm) overall
NPG 3619

Inscriptionback to top

Signed lower right: ‘Hy.F.’;
and inscr. in ink across top: ‘Three Caricatures / Arthur à Beckett. Linley Sambourne Ansty Guthrie.’
On back, inscr. in ink: ‘Punch Chap XIII’.

This portraitback to top

For Furniss’s relationship with the sitter, see NPG 3509.

See also NPG collection 3337–3535, 3554–3620.

Carol Blackett-Ord

Footnotesback to top

Physical descriptionback to top

Whole-length, three-quarters to right, in check suit, smoking a cigar, seated astride chair, arms resting on chairback, at centre of group.

Provenanceback to top

The artist; his sons, from whom purchased (through Theodore Cluse), April 1947

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