Colonel Sir William James Colville (1827-1903)
Male figure playing a piano dated 1879
Pencil and watercolour | 21.8 x 16.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 981658.d
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Colonel Sir William James Colville (1827-1903)
Master: Album belonging to Princess Louise Item: Male figure playing a piano dated 1879
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A watercolour showing a male figure playing a piano, possibly Ludvig van Beethoven. The figure is shown full-length, seated on a piano stool and facing right in profile. He is playing a grand piano and looking up to a portrait bust on a plinth to the right.
Signed lower right: WJC 1879
Inscribed lower right: by Col Colville 18879 [sic]
The Honourable William James Colville was an amateur draughtsman and caricaturist. He was the Treasurer to Princess Louise's brother, Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, from 1871 to 1894 and became Master of Ceremonies in 1893. -
Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Pencil and watercolour
Measurements
21.8 x 16.2 cm (sheet of paper)