FDA-E.923-2013
Parts
Object number
FDA-E.923-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Revd. Edward Coleridge
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Printed black & white, head and shoulders portrait of a man, turned to the right
Comments
[Edward] ‘Coleridge was born in 1800 at Ottery St Mary, Devon. He was a nephew of poet and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his own nephew, John Duke Coleridge, became Lord Chief Justice. His father-in-law was the Eton Head Master Dr Keate, notorious for floggings. Coleridge had been a pupil at Eton before graduating from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1822. He was ordained the following year and received his MA from Exeter College in 1827. At Eton, he served as an Assistant Master (1824-50), Lower Master (1850-57) and in 1857 became a fellow. Coleridge was later awarded the position of vicar at Mapledurham, Oxfordshire.
…Letters in the archives of the Royal Academy indicate that Richmond and Coleridge were in correspondence from April 1841 until after the latter’s move to Mapledurham in 1862. Coleridge’s interest in [Eton] Leaving Portraits was part of a long-established Eton tradition which began in the mid-18th century with Head Masters requesting portraits from particular boys. Coleridge clearly stipulated that Richmond was to undertake these portraits and he sometimes checked whether particular boys had yet been in touch with the artist to arrange a sitting. In addition… Coleridge personally commissioned further portrait drawings, including a watercolour portrait of his cousin, writer Sara Coleridge (1802-52), now in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas; one of himself (probably the Richmond drawing of Coleridge lent to Eton College for the Loan Exhibition of 1891 by ‘Mrs. Shadwell’); and a portrait of George Augustus Selwyn (1809-78), who served as Bishop of New Zealand (and later Lichfield). Coleridge wrote to Richmond of his plans to commission a print after the Selwyn portrait from engraver Samuel Cousins and a copy of that print is held in the Eton Collections.’
[See: 'Gifts Returned: George Richmond's Portraits for the Rev. E. Coleridge', Eton College Collections Journal, Michaelmas 2017, pp.6-7]
…Letters in the archives of the Royal Academy indicate that Richmond and Coleridge were in correspondence from April 1841 until after the latter’s move to Mapledurham in 1862. Coleridge’s interest in [Eton] Leaving Portraits was part of a long-established Eton tradition which began in the mid-18th century with Head Masters requesting portraits from particular boys. Coleridge clearly stipulated that Richmond was to undertake these portraits and he sometimes checked whether particular boys had yet been in touch with the artist to arrange a sitting. In addition… Coleridge personally commissioned further portrait drawings, including a watercolour portrait of his cousin, writer Sara Coleridge (1802-52), now in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas; one of himself (probably the Richmond drawing of Coleridge lent to Eton College for the Loan Exhibition of 1891 by ‘Mrs. Shadwell’); and a portrait of George Augustus Selwyn (1809-78), who served as Bishop of New Zealand (and later Lichfield). Coleridge wrote to Richmond of his plans to commission a print after the Selwyn portrait from engraver Samuel Cousins and a copy of that print is held in the Eton Collections.’
[See: 'Gifts Returned: George Richmond's Portraits for the Rev. E. Coleridge', Eton College Collections Journal, Michaelmas 2017, pp.6-7]
Description
Content (person)
Coleridge, Edward, 1800 - 1883 (Sitter)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 440mm
width (sight size): 350mm
width (sight size): 350mm
Materials & techniques note
Stipple engraving
Physical description
Gilt wood frame
Production
Person
Date
1847
History and association
Associated object
FDA-D.1604-2019 (associated object)
