Sir Ernest Cassel
1909
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 19.9 × 14.9 cm (7 7/8 × 5 7/8 in.); Sheet: 40.5 × 28.3 cm (16 × 11 3/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
42151
Art Historical Context
In the Prints and Drawings department of the Institute of Chicago, Anders Zorn's *Sir Ernest Cassel* (9) stands as a masterful etching that captures the dignified likeness of the prominent British financier and philanthropist Sir Ernest Cassel Zorn, a celebrated Swedish artist renowned for his virtuoso printmaking, produced this intimate portrait during a period when he was at the height of his international fame, traveling to London to depict Europe's elite. Cassel, a close advisor to King Edward VII and a key figure in Edwardian high society, is rendered with Zorn's signature psychological d...
About the Artist
Anders Zorn · 1860–1920
Anders Zorn (1860–1920), one of Sweden's most celebrated artists, was born on February 18 in Utmeland near Mora in Dalarna, and raised on his maternal grandparents' farm in the nearby hamlet of Yvraden. Displaying prodigious talent from a young age, he attended school in Mora Strand until age twelve, followed by secondary grammar school in Enköping, where he excelled in drawing people and horses. ...