Portrait of Sir Francis Seymour Haden

Portrait of Sir Francis Seymour Haden
Portrait of Sir Francis Seymour Haden

Portrait of Sir Francis Seymour Haden

Date1881
Artist (French and British etcher, painter, and sculptor, 1837–1911)
Subject (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)
Credit LineGift of Mark Samuels Lasner, 2021
Object number2021-41
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPRINT
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.