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Self Portrait

Pardoe, Thomas (1770 - 1823)

Self Portrait

Media: oil on panel

Size: 38.1 x 32.5 cm

Acquired: 1959; Gift; Mrs Emma Pardoe James

Accession Number: NMW A 1954

Thomas Pardoe (1770-1823) was employed as a painter at the Cambrian Pottery, Swansea, from about 1795 to 1809. He then worked freelance in Bristol, before returning to Wales in the winter of 1820-1 where he decorated the remaining stock of porcelain at Nantgarw until his death. This picture, which is almost certainly a self-portrait, belongs to a tradition of portraits of collectors and artists which originated in sixteenth-century Italy.

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Jane (my grandmother was Irene Pardoe)
26 September 2011, 19:13
It is a pleasure to view this portrait of a distant relative of mine. It is amazing it was given to the museum in 1959, especially considering Thomas Pardoe died in 1823! I really value his talent and especially the tiger jug. A simular one fetched over
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