Portrait of Sir Francis Seymour Haden
Date1881
Artist
Alphonse Legros
French and British etcher, painter, and sculptor, 1837–1911
Subject
Seymour Haden
British collector, etcher, and surgeon, 1818–1910
MediumMezzotint
Dimensionsplate: 9 3/4 × 7 in. (24.8 × 17.8 cm)
sheet: 14 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (36.8 × 26.7 cm)
sheet: 14 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (36.8 × 26.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mark Samuels Lasner, 2021
Object number2021-41
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextAlphonse Legros was French by birth but moved to London permanently in 1863 where he became closely associated with members of the pre-Raphaelite circle. Although trained as a painter he was joined in the Etching Revival of the late 19th-century. The sitter for this portrait, Seymour Haden, was also an accomplished etcher despite training and practicing as a surgeon.
