Sir Aston Webb

Sir Aston Webb, by William Rothenstein, circa 1922 -NPG 6713 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Sir Aston Webb

by William Rothenstein
Black, red and white chalks on thick buff-coloured paper, circa 1922
11 3/8 in. x 15 1/4 in. (288 mm x 388 mm) overall
NPG 6713

This portraitback to top

This finished drawing is close to, but not the same as, the one listed by John Rothenstein in The Portrait Drawings of William Rothenstein 1889–1925 (1926), as no.607, which is now untraced. NPG 6713 is larger, and contains black as well as red and white chalks. Unlike the missing drawing it has no signature, date or inscription. But the poses are similar and this allows it to be dated around 1922.

See NPG Portrait Set ‘Prominent men and women: drawings and paintings by Sir William Rothenstein, 1895–1939’.

Carol Blackett-Ord

Physical descriptionback to top

Head, almost profile to left.

Conservationback to top

Conserved, 2006.

Provenanceback to top

Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Portrait Gallery, 2005.

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