IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 38170 accession number: C.43-1992 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain slip-cast, glazed, and painted onglaze in green, yellow, purplish-pink, red and brown. The infant artist stands on a scrolled base beside a tree stump. He holds his palette over his left arm and his paint brush in his right hand. object type: soft-paste porcelain figure of a Boy representing Painting or 'The Infant Artist', decorated in polychrome enamels. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham Collection; on Dr Statham's death in 1967 it remained in Mrs Hugh (Margaret) Statham's possession until her death in 1970; Miss Beryl Statham, by whom lent anonymously (Statham Loan 18-1970), and bequeathed in 1990. Accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Miss Statham, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax, and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38170 PEOPLE ------------------- boy SUBJECTS ------------------- palette paint brush tree stump palette paint brush tree stump TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, glazed, and painted onglaze in green, yellow, purplish-pink, red and brown enamels slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1756 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1756 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Vauxhall Porcelain Factory maker: Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory maker: Littler, William DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 13.6 CITATIONS -------- Longton Hall Porcelain The Dr. Peter Bradshaw Collection of English Porcelain Figures Vauxhall porcelain figures ---