Edward Fox White
- Artist: James Jacques Joseph Tissot
- Date: circa 1877
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 29 in. x 21 in. (737 mm x 534 mm) overall
- Portrays: Edward Fox White
- Museum: The National Portrait Gallery
- Collection record: The National Portrait Gallery website
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About this artwork
Before you is a portrait of Edward Fox White, an art dealer whose business ties stretched from Paris to Britain in the late 19th century. The canvas shows him mid‑step, hand poised over a large print he seems about to examine. His silk waistcoat and cravat gleam with subtle sheen, hinting at both wealth and the fashionable taste of his era. Tissot, a French painter and printmaker, painted this lively pose in oil on canvas around 1877—perhaps to mark White’s second marriage. White’s first wife came from a Sephardic family that owned Jamaican sugar plantations; later inheritance likely helped him advance his career as an art dealer.
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Edward Fox White is in the collection of The National Portrait Gallery at St Martin's Place, London — free to enter. Point your phone at any artwork there and audioguide.london plays a free audio guide in six languages — no app download needed.
