O-405.1
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print (portrait)
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William Ewart Gladstone

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print (portrait)

Specifications

Artists	John Colin Forbes (original artist)
Date	Circa 1931
Signature	J. Colin Forbes
Inscriptions	London, published July 16th 1892 by Henry Graves & Co. the proprietors, Publishers to H.M. The Queen and T.R.H. the Prince and Princess of Wales 6 Pall Mall Copyright registered U.S.A. Copyright 1892 by Henry Graves & Co. J. Colin Forbes
Materials	ink
Support	paper, unidentified
Fabrication Techniques	mezzotint
Personal Names	William Ewart Gladstone (British House of Commons)
Dimensions (cm)	60.0 (Length) • 88.5 (Height)
Functions	Art

John Colin Forbes

The Forbes family arches over Canada’s early official portraiture like no other. Between John Colin Forbes and son Kenneth Forbes, they painted seven Prime Ministers and 25 speakers of the Senate or House of Commons. They also painted several British monarchs, most notably John Colin Forbes’s portraits of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, which were destroyed in the fire at Parliament in 1916. Forbes was born in Toronto in 1846, and studied in London and Paris. He was friends with Wilfrid Laurier and painted more than one portrait of the MP and Prime Minister, including one that Laurier donated to the nascent National Gallery of Canada.

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