Object Literature
Augustus William Dubourg (1830-1910), was a playwright, novelist, and civil servant. Most of his plays appear to have been comedies or romantic dramas, for instance ‘The Mount’, and he also collaborated on occasion with the art critic and playwright Tom Taylor. In 1887, he was invited to the private view of the Royal Society of British Artists exhibition. JW was then President of the Society.
R. S. Moseley (fl.1862 -1893) was a painter of genre and animal subjects. His home address in 1862 is listed as: 13 Union Grove, Wandsworth Road, London. He exhibited at the RA, BI, Sussex Street and RBA. The Royal Society of British Artists lists 34 paintings many inscribed with literary quotations. Some of his paintings realised substantial sums of money, in 1868 ‘A board of guardians’ was sold for £100.00, and in 1869 ‘Snowed Out’ £73.10s. This was obviously was of his later works.
An intriguing and decorative portrait of a prominent figure of the theatrical world, by a good hand.