Fighting Knights Before Castle

1795·Pen and orange-red ink, with brush and gray wash, graphite, and traces of red chalk, on cream wove paper, squared in graphite·20.7 × 24 cm (8 3/16 × 9 1/2 in.)

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Catalogue

Year: 1795
Medium: Pen and orange-red ink, with brush and gray wash, graphite, and traces of red chalk, on cream wove paper, squared in graphite
Dimensions: 20.7 × 24 cm (8 3/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Robert Ker Porter

Artist

Robert Ker Porter

Painting

Sir Robert Ker Porter, KCH was a British artist, writer and diplomat. Known today for his accounts of his travels in Russia, Spain, Portugal and Persia, he was one of the earliest panorama painters in Britain, was appointed historical painter to Tsar Alexander I of Russia and served as British consul in Venezuela.

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