FDA-P.180-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.180-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Sir John Taylor Coleridge
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Information from unpublished Margaret Carpenter catalogue by Richard J Smith, 1995.
Oil on canvas. 51x40". Attribution definite. Cust p.72. Sitters' Book: 1858 Judge Coleridge [copy] £42.-.-. [M58001] It is assumed that this was a copy of the 1837 portrait in the Coleridge family collection. Not seen.
In 'The Dictionary of British Women Artists' (2009), author Sara Gray states: 'In 1904 her portrait of Sir John Taylor Coleridge was exhibited at Messrs Vicars' Gallery.' [page 64]. However, this is one of two similar portraits of Coleridge by Carpenter. The other was sold through Sotheby's at 'The Chanter's House Sale', on 24 October 2006 (Lot 10).
Oil on canvas. 51x40". Attribution definite. Cust p.72. Sitters' Book: 1858 Judge Coleridge [copy] £42.-.-. [M58001] It is assumed that this was a copy of the 1837 portrait in the Coleridge family collection. Not seen.
In 'The Dictionary of British Women Artists' (2009), author Sara Gray states: 'In 1904 her portrait of Sir John Taylor Coleridge was exhibited at Messrs Vicars' Gallery.' [page 64]. However, this is one of two similar portraits of Coleridge by Carpenter. The other was sold through Sotheby's at 'The Chanter's House Sale', on 24 October 2006 (Lot 10).
Description
Content (person)
Content (note)
Three-quarter-length, head on left hand, in legal robes, seated in a green chair, with an open book on his lap
Dimension note
51 x 40 in
Inscription
I.D. label on frame
This label erroneously gives the sitter's dates as 1820-1894, which are the dates of Coleridge's son, John Duke Coleridge.
This label erroneously gives the sitter's dates as 1820-1894, which are the dates of Coleridge's son, John Duke Coleridge.
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Elaborate carved contemporary rococo revival giltwood and plaster composition frame
Production
Person
Date
c.1858
History and association
Associated object
FDA-E.1097-2013 (associated object)
Object history note
Exhibited: possibly Messrs Vicars' Gallery, London, 1904
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.72)
