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James Watt Collection: SCM - Art Object Name: oil painting; portrait Maker: Breda, Carl Fredrik von Place Made: United Kingdom Date Made: 1792 Materials: oil paint on canvas Measurements: frame: 1400 mm x 1150 mm x 55 mm; image: 1270 mm x 1020 mm |
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Description: Painting, Portrait of James Watt, by Carl Fredrik von Breda, 1792. Oil on canvas; 127 x 102 cm in frame 140 x 115 x 5.5 cm. Signed and dated blc. One of three known versions of an oil painted by Carl Fredrik von Breda upon a visit to Boulton and Watt in Birmingham in 1792, probably in the company of the engineer John Rennie and to his commission. Others are in the Institution of Mechanical Engineers London, and the National Portrait Gallery London. A version exhibited at the Royal Academy London, 1793 (cat. 211). This is the earliest known portraiture of Watt who is seated nearly WL towards the left, head resting on his right hand; he looks contemplatively beyond the table to his right on which lies a drawing of a rotative beam engine with condenser of the type produced in 1788 or later, with a wooden frame similar to that used by Rennie in 1792. Credit Line: Purchased with support from the National Heritage Memorial Fund |
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| Boulton, Watt and Company 1775-1805, manufacturing engineer, Soho, Birmingham, England, English; British | |
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| Rennie, John 1761-1821, engineer, Scottish; British | |
| Breda, Carl Fredrik von 1759-1818, artist; painter, Swedish | |
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