A Hero Born on a Bier, from The Master of Giants Portfolio

Inscriptions

Inscribed, verso: "22"

Provenance

Sold by Roland, Browse, & Delbanco, London, to Leonard G. Duke, 1949; sold, Sotheby’s, London, Mar. 5, 1970, lot 100, to Walter A. Brandt (1902–1978); by descent, to 2023 [all provenance is according to Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker, 2023]; sold through Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker, London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.

Publications

Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd., Night Thoughts: Romantic Drawings from the Brandt Collection (London: Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd., 2023), pp. 24–27 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Prince Hoare / British, 1755-1834
Date: 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.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: prints and drawing
Place: Great Britain
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Suzanne Searle Dixon Endowment Fund
Accession no.: 2023.3179

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.