A Contemplative Youth

Charles Howard Hodges after Joshua Reynolds

A Contemplative Youth

London, 1786

Mezzotint, open letter proof before publication line.

320 x 245 mm

£240

A young boy, said to be a son of Mather Brown, sitting in a landscape with hands clasped on his lap, looking upwards. Inscibed in ink in a contemporary hand ‘Master Brown…’

Mather Brown (baptized 11 October 1761 – 25 May 1831) was an American painter who was born in Boston, Massachusetts and was active in England.