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Portrait of Richard Trevithick
John Linnell1816
National Railway Museum
York, United Kingdom
Painting, Richard Trevithick, John Linnell, 1816. Oil on canvas; 61x 51cm in gilt frame 82x72x8cm. Portrait of Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) Cornish inventor and mining engineer developed the first high pressure steam engine and the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.; John Linnell (1792-1882) was a well known English landscape and portrait painter and engraver. HL seated to R, looking front, with right hand pointing across and behind him to landscape.
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- Title: Portrait of Richard Trevithick
- Creator: Linnell, John
- Date Created: 1816
- Location Created: England, United Kingdom
- Physical Dimensions: frame: 820 mm x 720 mm x 80 mm,; image: 610 mm x 510 mm; overall: 830 mm x 730 mm x 90 mm,
- Type: oil painting; portrait
- Rights: Copyright expired
- External Link: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co65492
- Medium: oil paint on canvas; gilt
- Art Genre: portrait
- Art Movement: Romanticism
- Art Form: painting
- Support: canvas
- Depicted Location: England, United Kingdom
- Depicted Person: Richard Trevithick
- Depicted Topic: landscape
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