Don Giovanni and the Equestrian Statue

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Charles Ricketts studied illustration at the City and Guilds Technical Art School in London, after which in 1888, he established an artists’ colony near J. McNeill Whistler’s old house in Chelsea. He set up The Vale Press and published books including works by Oscar Wilde. He also produced designs and illustrations combining medieval, Renaissance, and modern styles. Ricketts worked as a theatre designer for productions including George Bernard Shaw’s ‘St Joan’ (1924). In 1922 he became an Associate of the Royal Academy, becoming a Royal Academician in 1928. He wrote books on Titian and the Prado Museum in Madrid and was a prolific collector of antiquities and art, many of which were bequeathed to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Places

Subjects

horseback, opera, statue (as Subject), sculpture (as Subject), drama, horse, man, cape, servant, morality, plinth (represented)

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Charles Ricketts (1866 - 1931)

Title

Don Giovanni and the Equestrian Statue

Date

c.1905

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 57.50 cm, width: 47.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the Piccadilly Gallery, June 1963

Inscription

bl: CR (Monogram)

GAC number

6133