Номер объекта
M.2022.15
Название
A Long Room Conversation Piece
Дата
1999 - 1999
Создатель
Причина создания
Commission for MCC
Материал
Размер
142 x 132 cm
Описание
Full length, triple portrait of three men seated in Lord’s Pavilion Long Room. From left: Barry Richards, Clive Lloyd and Richard Hadlee. Richards wears a blue blazer and leans against the table. Lloyd wears a maroon West Indies blazer and is seated on a Long Room high chair. Hadlee wears a blue blazer and sits on a Windsor chair. Five men visible in the background. Six paintings from the MCC collection, including the portrait of Thomas Lord, visible.
A Long Room Conversation Piece, 1999
Andrew Festing (1941)
Oil on canvas
Full length, triple portrait of three great international
players of the 1970s-1980s: South African batsman Barry
Richards wearing a navy blue jacket perching on a table,
West Indies captain Clive Lloyd wearing a maroon West
Indies Blazer and New Zealand all-rounder Sir Richard
Hadlee sitting on a Windsor chair in the Long Room.
Painted by self taught artist realist artist Andrew Festing.
Festing took up portrait painting while serving as an
Officer in the Rifle Brigade and continued to practice
while working for Sotheby’s from 1969-1981, managing
its Picture Department from 1977. He took up full time
portrait work in 1981. His subjects have included Her
Majesty the Queen, Betty Boo
throyd and the staff of
Holkham Hall, Norfolk.
MCC Collection: Commission, 1999
TN.2009.2390
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