A Hero Born on a Bier, from The Master of Giants Portfolio
Prince Hoare
1779
Medium
Brush and black ink wash, with pen and black ink and opaque white and gray watercolor, on cream laid paper
Dimensions
38 × 56.5 cm (15 × 22 1/4 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
270368
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Prince Hoare · 1755–1834
**Prince Hoare (1755–1834)** was an English painter, art critic, dramatist, and librettist whose multifaceted career bridged the visual arts and literature in late Georgian Britain. Born in Bath as the younger son of the prominent portrait painter William Hoare RA, he was named after his uncle, the sculptor Prince Hoare the elder. He studied under his father from an early age and quickly establish...