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Julius Caesar Ibbetson
2 of 2 portraits by Julius Caesar Ibbetson
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Regency Portraits Catalogue
Julius Caesar Ibbetson
by Julius Caesar Ibbetson
1804
14 3/8 in. x 10 3/4 in. (365 mm x 273 mm)
NPG 6267
Inscriptionback to top
Signed and dated on side of table right: April 9th/Julius/Ibbetson/Aet. 45/1864, and on the back in black paint on red ground: Painted April 1804./& presented in June to His Friend/John Staveley/YORK./one of the very few who with-/-out making great professions/proved himself such on every/occasion -//to Posterity/my dear fellows, if this reaches you/be so good as not to imagine that had you I been situated as the painter of it was/You would have been much wiser or better. altho he was all his/life rather inclined to be thought/less and imprudent -/you would have broke/your Hearts.
Physical descriptionback to top
Whole-length seated at ease in brown beaver, dark blue tail-coat with brass buttons, black neckcloth, white shirt-frill, grey waistcoat, buff breeches, black boots, palette and brushes in left hand; canvas with landscape with stream and cattle to left, portfolio and paper lower right; brown hair (or wig), dark eyes, stout rosy face.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.