Portrait of Benjamin Brandreth (oil painting reproduction, Wikimedia Commons)
photograph · 1870
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SUMMARY
Wikimedia Commons file record, fetched directly via the Commons API. A photograph of an oil-on-canvas portrait of Benjamin Brandreth, described by the uploader as held in their own personal collection and tagged Public Domain (PD-Art reproduction of a painting whose own copyright, as a work predating 1880, has expired). No institutional holding record (museum, archive, or gallery accession) for the underlying painting could be found in a dated search (2026-08-01) across the four supported archives (Wellcome Collection, Library of Congress, BnF/Gallica, Wikimedia Commons) or beyond; this is used as a Commons-only source per this archive's fallback rule, and that dated search is recorded here rather than silently substituted. The portrait is framed to circa 1870 by the Wikipedia infobox that also uses this file, consistent with depicting Brandreth as an older, white-bearded man. Used as the practitioner's portrait media asset (actor role).
NOTES
This Wikimedia Commons file is a photographic reproduction of an oil-on-canvas portrait of Benjamin Brandreth, described by its uploader as held in a private collection and tagged Public Domain as a reproduction of a painting whose own copyright (predating Brandreth’s 1880 death) has expired. No institutional holding record for the underlying painting was found in the four archives this project’s media search covers, or elsewhere; that negative search is recorded here as this archive’s convention requires when a Commons-only source is used. The portrait depicts an elderly, white-bearded man consistent with the “circa 1870” framing used elsewhere for this same file, and is used as the case’s actor-role (practitioner portrait) media asset.