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He trained as a miniature painter before going on to produce mezzotints and coloured copies from prints by George Morland (1763-1804) and others.  His first oil painting was a portrait of his wife.  He was elected ARA in 1821 and exhibited 99 works at the Royal Academy between 1802 and 1845, the majority portraits.  After about 1816 many of his portraits were of actors and theatrical scenes.  His studio in Gower Street became a meeting place for the leading actors and actresses of the day.\r\n\r\nThis painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1831 and depicts a moment in Act 3, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's Hamlet.  It is one of about 500 British oil paintings and watercolours given to the South Kensington Museum, now the Victoria and Albert Museum, by John Sheepshanks in 1857.","physicalDescription":"A woman (Ophelia - played by Miss Glover) stands with her back to the viewer.  A man (Hamlet - played by Charles Young) stands to her right, his front facing the viewer, his arms folded.  The scene takes place in a room with a geometrically patterned floor, luxurious draped fabric on the right-hand side and a series of rounded architectural arches in the background.  A stringed instrument (?lute) is raised on a platform in the midground between the two figures.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Clint, George","id":"A10401"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"oil paint","id":"AAT15050"},{"text":"canvas","id":"AAT14078"}],"techniques":[{"text":"oil painting","id":"AAT178684"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"oil on canvas","categories":[{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"},{"text":"Shakespeare","id":"THES253244"}],"styles":[{"text":"British School","id":"x30967"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2007BP0866","2012FN0702","2017JW2872"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"B","id":"THES304641"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"oil paintings","id":"AAT33799"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"AAT54216"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1831","earliest":"1826-01-01","latest":"1835-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"128.9","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"estimate","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"96.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"estimate","note":""},{"dimension":"","value":"","unit":"","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":"Measurement taken at time of assessment prior to BH decant - Frame Dimensions (mm): H-1401 W-1173 D-50;\nPainting Dimensions (mm): not measured"}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from <i>Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860</i>, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Oil on canvas by George Clint entitled 'Charles Mayne Young as Hamlet and Mary Glover as Ophelia in 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare'.  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