FDA-D.1798-2026
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.1798-2026
Object type
Identification
Title
Michael Meysey Wigley Severne of Shakenhurst
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Sketch drawing of Michael Meysey (profile, facing right) in red tone
Description
Dimensions
height (frame): 484mm
width (frame): 398mm
depth (frame): 29mm
height (sight size): 344mm
width (sight size): 257mm
width (frame): 398mm
depth (frame): 29mm
height (sight size): 344mm
width (sight size): 257mm
Inscription
Signed and dated, lower right: 'Peter Wardle / 1996'
Inscribed in black in, on back of frame: ‘This portrait is given to Eton College / on 20 MAY 2026 by William James / Lorimer, in beloved memory of the / sitter MMWS! / Michael Meysey Wigley Severne / 1922-2007, of Thenford, Shakenhurst, Wallop etc / kept for the family after the / sale of Shakenhurst in 2010 / but sold by Nick, widow of / Amanda at Bellmans in / 2023, bought with three other / pictures of him – the early ones / given to Eton College in 2023 / including the Wilfrid Blunt oil / sketch and a pencil sketch by / Sir James Gunn. The two pictures / of Rachel "the swan" given to / Clandeboye, that of Amanda to / Phoebe’s daughter Hazel in 2025 / & the pendant of this to Rowland / in November 2025 together with / a drawing of Rowland Burton- / Muller his gt-gt-uncle and 3 / Burden/Muller miniatures that / belonged to Rowland B-M and thence / to his nephew my beloved cousin / depicted here! WSL 11-21-2025’
Inscribed in black in, on back of frame: ‘This portrait is given to Eton College / on 20 MAY 2026 by William James / Lorimer, in beloved memory of the / sitter MMWS! / Michael Meysey Wigley Severne / 1922-2007, of Thenford, Shakenhurst, Wallop etc / kept for the family after the / sale of Shakenhurst in 2010 / but sold by Nick, widow of / Amanda at Bellmans in / 2023, bought with three other / pictures of him – the early ones / given to Eton College in 2023 / including the Wilfrid Blunt oil / sketch and a pencil sketch by / Sir James Gunn. The two pictures / of Rachel "the swan" given to / Clandeboye, that of Amanda to / Phoebe’s daughter Hazel in 2025 / & the pendant of this to Rowland / in November 2025 together with / a drawing of Rowland Burton- / Muller his gt-gt-uncle and 3 / Burden/Muller miniatures that / belonged to Rowland B-M and thence / to his nephew my beloved cousin / depicted here! WSL 11-21-2025’
Materials & techniques note
Red chalk on paper
Production
Person
Wardle, Peter, 1929 - 2016 (Artist)
Date
1996
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Shakenhurst Hall, Cleobury Mortimer; sold through Bellmans, Billingshurst, on 5 August 2022, Lot 2222 (along with another similar drawing of the sitter by the same artist); from which sale purchased by William James Lorimer; by whom presented to Eton College in May 2026
