Title
Portrait of Mr. T.P. Purves
1900
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Self-Portrait [H.Y. Norton & Huband-Smith]
- Date
- 1900
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 53.0 x 43.0 cm stretcher; 69.7 x 59.6 x 5.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.l. corner, red oil "Tom Roberts". Dated l.r. corner, red oil "1900".
- Credit
- Watson Bequest Fund 1961
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- OA9.1961
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Tom Roberts
Works in the collection
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About
Employed as an official in an insurance company, T.P. Purves was married to Roberts' sister Alice. Typical of a number of the artist's portraits, it conforms to the then preferred academic formula of a brightly lit head on a dark ground with which the subject’s clothes merge. However Roberts' immense skill and individuality as a portraitist succeeds in lifting the quality of his rendition beyond the mere requirement of a satisfactory likeness.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1961, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Apr 1962–25 May 1962
Tom Roberts Festival (2001), Inverell Art Gallery, Inverell, 27 Apr 2001–06 May 2001
Tom Roberts Festival - Portraiture (2006), Inverell Art Gallery, Inverell, 22 Apr 2006–05 May 2006
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1961 Acquisitions, Sydney, 1961, 14. cat.no. 19
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Inverell Art Gallery, Tom Roberts Art Exhibition. Tom Roberts Festival 2001, Inverell, 2001, 3. cat.no. 5
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Daniel Thomas, Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly, 'Tom Roberts', pg. 466-487, Sydney, Jul 1969, 480, 481 (illus.).
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Helen Topliss, Tom Roberts 1856-1931: a catalogue raisonné. Volume II - Plates, Melbourne, 1985, 166. cat.no. 354
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Helen Topliss, Tom Roberts 1856-1931: a catalogue raisonné. Volume 1 - Text, Melbourne, 1985, (colour illus.). plate no. 156
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