This oil portrait copy was made at the Maagdenluismuseum of Antwerp in 1881 or 1885 during one of his two periods of study in Belgium. It hung in Sharp's studio in the late 1890s, as seen in a photograph of that workspace taken around 1899. (related image, #692b.)

Copy of a Portrait of Simon de Vos (by Abraham de Vries)

Record ID: 692

Date: 1881 or 1885; [ca. 1881]

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 54 1/2 x 44 in.

Owner: Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, The Eugene B. Atkins Collection, Norman, OK

Accession Number: ADKINS L2007.00020

Provenance: The artist; [?]; Eugene B. Adkins, Tulsa, OK; present owner by gift

Created concurrently with Peter Hassrick's 2018 Whitney West publication The Life & Art of Joseph Henry Sharp, this online catalogue highlights more than 700 works by J.H. Sharp that are held in public collections.

Copy of a Portrait of Simon de Vos (by Abraham de Vries)

Related

Abraham de Vries, Simon de Vos, 1635

Sharp's Studio, ca. 1899

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