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Bowles did not live too extravagant a lifestyle. On his death the landscape painter and diarist Joseph Farington (1747–1821) wrote: 'I have seldom seen a life passed with so much felicity.' He married his second wife Mary, daughter of Sir Abraham Isaac Elton (1718–1790), 4th Baronet, and Elizabeth Reed (1725–1755), about the time he painted this self portrait.
Title
Self Portrait in Van Dyck Dress at an Easel
Date
c.1770
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 71.1 x W 50.8 cm
Accession number
624312
Acquisition method
accepted in lieu of tax from the estate of Margaret Ann, Lady Elton, 1998
Work type
Painting
