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Checkmate
1866
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 55.1 × 68.5 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in black paint l.l.: C. M. Webb 1866. Pt.
- Accession Number
- p.302.9-1
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1870
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- 19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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This is a replica of another painting by Webb now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, which is signed and dated 1864. In a game of chess between a village squire and a schoolmaster, the squire appears to have won the contest. After studying at the Amsterdam and Antwerp Academies, Charles Webb settled in Dusseldorf, where he became known as a painter of genre subjects, particularly from English life and history.
- Subjects (general)
- Daily Life Human Figures Leisure, Games and Sport
- Subjects (specific)
- board games (activities) chess chess players men (male humans) pipes (smoking equipment) recreation scenes (depictions) smoking (activity)
- Provenance
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With James W. Hines (dealer), Melbourne, by 1870; from where purchased for the NGV, 1870[1].
[1] See ‘New Pictures in the National Gallery’, in The Argus, Melbourne, Thursday 15 September 1870, p. 5, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5831890
Frame
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This classical revival scotia frame has hand cut flutes in the scotia and is large in scale for the painting. A number of small format nineteenth century paintings have over scale frames like this, in part to hold a place on the walls of the Academy or Salon.
The painting was cleaned in 2006.
- Framemaker
- Unknown - 19th century
- Condition
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good original condition