Label TextThis curious trompe l'œil of an engraving pinned to a wooden wall may be a companion piece to NGI.4008, as the dimensions, style and technique of the pictures are very similar, and the media identical. In this case Lowry has copied a mezzotint after Nathaniel Hone's painting The Spartan Boy (private collection), which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1775. Small-scale trompe l'œil paintings in oils, in which artists demonstrated their technical virtuosity, had been popular in European art since the sixteenth century.
Label TextThis curious trompe l'œil of an engraving pinned to a wooden wall may be a companion piece to NGI.4008, as the dimensions, style and technique of the pictures are very similar, and the media identical. In this case Lowry has copied a mezzotint after Nathaniel Hone's painting The Spartan Boy (private collection), which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1775. Small-scale trompe l'œil paintings in oils, in which artists demonstrated their technical virtuosity, had been popular in European art since the sixteenth century.
