Works on Paper 2019 - Jean Luc Baroni
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Royal Academician, beating C<strong>on</strong>stable by 18 votes<br />
to 5, in 1828.<br />
Etty began painting portraits as early as in the<br />
1810s, but it is not until the early 1830s that he<br />
began to paint portraits in a more c<strong>on</strong>centrated<br />
fashi<strong>on</strong>, partly because of ill-health but also<br />
because they could be a regular source income.<br />
His fellow artists were dismayed by his move to<br />
become a portrait painter, c<strong>on</strong>sidering the field<br />
to be inferior to the ambitious field of large scale<br />
history painting. A commissi<strong>on</strong>ed portrait of<br />
Elizabeth Potts exhibited at the Summer exhibiti<strong>on</strong><br />
of 1834, was titled A portrait and though technically<br />
superb, was poorly received by critics. Persevering,<br />
Etty lavished time and insisted <strong>on</strong> repeated sittings<br />
to finish to his own high standards the Portrait of<br />
Charlotte and Mary Williams-Wynn Preparing for<br />
a Fancy Dress Ball (now in the York Art Gallery),<br />
which was begun in 1833. This was exhibited at<br />
the summer show of 1835, al<strong>on</strong>gside the present<br />
portrait of George Shepherd, as well as nine other<br />
works. Etty c<strong>on</strong>tinued to paint private portraits of<br />
his friends but undertook very few public portrait<br />
commissi<strong>on</strong>s and <strong>on</strong>ly thirty of his portraits were<br />
exhibited during his lifetime. Although small in<br />
number, some of his portraits are am<strong>on</strong>g the most<br />
charming works of his entire producti<strong>on</strong>.<br />
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