Year 1740 Period Rococo | Created 1740 Genre Portrait | |
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Dimensions 239 cm × 147.5 cm (94 in × 58.1 in) William Hogarth artwork The Graham Children, The Shrimp Girl, Hogarth's Servants, The March of the Guards to, Sigismunda mourning over the | ||
Portrait of Captain Thomas Coram is a 1740 portrait of philanthropist Thomas Coram painted by William Hogarth. The portrait, which represents Hogarth’s highest achievement in direct portraiture, was not created as a commission and was instead donated to Coram's Foundling Hospital. The portrait is divided into two sections: The left side represents Coram's sea ventures, a major source of his wealth. The right side shows a curtain pulled over a mother figure with a child/
The painting is now in the collection of London's Foundling Museum.
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Portrait of Captain Thomas Coram Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA