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Griffith Owen, harpist to the Corbet family of Tywyn
MARSHALL, Benjamin (1768-1835)
Griffith Owen (1750-1833) was butler and harpist to the Corbet family of Ynysymaengwyn, Merioneth, and is here shown standing in the hallway holding a volume of music by Handel. His employers clearly thought much of him, as they commissioned this portrait from the fashionable sporting artist Benjamin Marshall, when he painted a Corbet family group. An old label records that the painting 'was drawn' when Owen heard of the death of Mrs Corbet, 'his Ever to be-lamented Mistress'.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 14301
Creation/Production
MARSHALL, Benjamin
Date:
Acquisition
Purchase, 19/10/1999
Measurements
Height (cm): 92
Width (cm): 71
(): h(cm) frame:110
(): h(cm)
(): w(cm) frame:89
(): w(cm)
(): d(cm) frame:8.8
(): d(cm)
Techniques
oil on canvas
Techniques (fine art)
art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting
Material
oil
canvas
Location
In store
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