M E Nutter self portrait

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	item:- Tullie House Museum : 1922.52 image:- ©  Tullie House Museum	click to enlarge
	Painting, oil painting, self portrait, by Matthew Ellis Nutter, Carlisle, Cumberland, about 1820. half length portrait of Nutter as a young man, facing front, his head turned to the left and his gaze directed away from the viewer. He wears a velvet cap trimmed with fur and a black jacket with claret coloured waistcoat and cravat. He sits with a canvas on his knee, held upright by his left hand. He is depicted in a studio interior with heavy crimson drapes and, to left, a classical column.
	inscription:-	annotated reverse M.E. Nutter artist Carlisle Painted by Himself not visible; new backboard
	wxh, image:-	28x34cm

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