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When Branwell Brontë went to Bradford to work as a portrait painter a friend of his father found accommodation for him in his own respectable street. Branwell lodged and had a studio with Mr Kirby, an ale and porter merchant, at 3 Fountain Street, where he painted the whole family's portraits, possibly in lieu of rent. The Kirby paintings constitute the artist's best work in oils, and Branwell manages to convey here the idea of a rather dreamy, melancholy man.
Brontë Parsonage Museum
Keighley
Title
Isaac Kirby (d.1844)
Date
1838–1839
Medium
oil on wood panel
Measurements
H 35.5 x W 30.5 cm
Accession number
B23
Acquisition method
gift from the Ingram Family, 1952
Work type
Painting
Brontë Parsonage Museum
Church Street, Haworth, Keighley, West Yorkshire BD22 8DR England
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