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Edward Bent Walker, who studied first at Liverpool and later with Sir Hubert von Herkomer, is noted in the 'Wigan Examiner', 16th December 1913, as having remarked that the portrait of Ebenezer Prout of 1904 was 'his most famous painting'. Ebenezer Prout (1835–1909) is depicted when elderly, with a long, silver, whispy beard and grey hair, half-length, turned to the right, wearing academic robes. He taught at the Royal Academy of Music from 1879, where his pupils included Sir Henry Wood, Sir Edward German and the piano pedagogue Tobias Matthay. A composer and editor, his name is familiar to choral singers and is linked to his 1902 edition of Handel's 'Messiah'. He was also Professor of Music at the University of Dublin from 1894 until his death in 1909.

Royal Academy of Music

London

Title

Ebenezer Prout (1835–1909)

Date

1904

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 63 x W 51 cm

Accession number

2003.1098

Acquisition method

on loan from the Incorporated Society of Musicians, since 1958

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

E. Bent Walker, 1904

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Artist or maker

Edward Bent Walker

1860–1917

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