Artwork
Portrait of Colonel Charles Heathcote
Portrait of Colonel Charles Heathcote is an unspecified painting by the Rococo painting artist Joseph Wright of Derby. It dates from 1772 and is held in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
- Accession no.
- 2017.100
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
About this work
Overview
Assuming a relaxed but commanding pose, Colonel Charles Heathcote (1734–1797) stands beside a large oak tree in the foreground of an expansive landscape.
Assuming a relaxed but commanding pose, Colonel Charles Heathcote (1734–1797) stands beside a large oak tree in the foreground of an expansive landscape. He wears military dress, the single epaulette on his right shoulder designating his rank as colonel. Wright’s composition demonstrates his new-found fascination with landscape: while the figure is relatively smoothly painted, the landscape is painted far more energetically, using thickly applied daubs of color.
Did you know?
The handful of small-scale, full-length portraits Wright painted early in his career include his earliest experiments in landscape painting.
Artist & collection
Artist
Joseph Wright (3 September 1734 – 29 August 1797), styled Joseph Wright of Derby, was an English painter who specialised in portrait painting and landscape art.
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