Old Man with Spectacles, from Life-Sized Heads
Dorothy Braude Edinburg Collection in honor of Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude
Catalogue
- Year
- 1760
- Dimensions
- Plate: 50.3 × 35.1 cm (19 13/16 × 13 7/8 in.); Sheet: 55.4 × 40.3 cm (21 13/16 × 15 7/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Thomas Frye
Artist
Thomas Frye was an Anglo-Irish artist, best known for his portraits in oil and pastel, including some miniatures and his early mezzotint engravings. He was also the patentee of the Bow porcelain factory, London, and claimed in his epitaph to be "the inventor and first manufacturer of porcelain in England," though his rivals at the Chelsea porcelain factory seem to have preceded him in bringing wares to market. The Bow porcelain works did not long survive Frye's death; their final auctions took place in May 1764.
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- Thomas Frye
- Year
- 1760
- Dimensions
- Plate: 50.3 × 35.1 cm (19 13/16 × 13 7/8 in.); Sheet: 55.4 × 40.3 cm (21 13/16 × 15 7/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1760-331527
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified