1850
oil
canvas
From the collection of British Museum
Dominant colour
Sir Charles Newton (1816–1894), Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1861–1885) is a 1850 oil by Henry Wyndham Phillips, a British Romanticism work, held at British Museum.
This painting is a portrait of a man with dark, wavy hair and a mustache. He wears a dark jacket over a white shirt, with his right hand resting on his chin. The background is a muted brown color. The man's gaze is directed slightly to the left, and his expression is serious. The painting's style is realistic, with attention to detail in the subject's facial features and clothing. The artist's use of chiaroscuro creates a sense of depth and dimensionality in the portrait. To learn more about this technique, look up chiaroscuro.
Henry Wyndham Phillips (c. 1820 – 8 December 1868) was a British artist and portrait painter. Although he produced and exhibited a small number of paintings of scriptural subjects early on in his career, he spent most…
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