Portrait of a Young Gentleman

George Elgar Hicks (1824-1914)

Signed and dated 1858

Watercolour and bodycolour, oval

30.00 x 25.00cm (11.81 x 9.84 inches)

Courtesy of Sarah Colegrave Fine Art

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Portrait of a Young Gentleman dates to the early part of Hicks’ career when he was involved in his young and growing family and painting portraits of his friends and family. In the following years he exhibited the first of his large and acclaimed genre paintings of crowded modern life scenes that were to make him famous/

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