New Francis Quirk Portrait Comes to Light Pastel of Edward Quirk

Through a relative of Professor Quirk, we have received an image of a pastel portrait of Francis' older brother Edward. The portrait was in a residence in Florida when the photo was taken many years ago. The exact whereabouts of the portrait today are unknown. We have also unsuccessfully tried to track down other photos of Edward.

Since the photo was taken at an angle we sought to correct for it using computer technology. Below is the original image supplied by the family member.

Photo of pastel portrait of Edward Quirk, the older brother of Francis J.Quirk by Francis J. Quirk

 We then cropped the image to remove as much of the frame as possible.

Photo of pastel portrait of Edward Quirk, the older brother of Francis J.Quirk by Francis J. Quirk (cropped)

Then using Photoshop we widened the picture to offset the narrowing caused by the angled photo.  It is not perfect, but we believe it is a reasonable approximation of the original drawing.

 

Photo of pastel portrait of Edward Quirk, the older brother of Francis J.Quirk by Francis J. Quirk (cropped with adjustment to offset angularity in supplied photo.)

This portrait is unusual in that quirk has drawn his brother from the back looking over his shoulder at the artist. In other works we have seen the use of pastel on dark backgrounds and fading in the clothing. For comparison we have provided photos of three other Quirk pastel portraits. To see more of Quirk's pastel works, you can visit a SlideShare presentation here.