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
'In 1904 her portrait of Sir John Taylor Coleridge was exhibited at Messrs Vicars' Gallery.'
[Source: Gray, Sara, 'The Dictionary of British Women Artists', 2009, page 64]
[Source: Gray, Sara, 'The Dictionary of British Women Artists', 2009, page 64]
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: Messrs Vicars' Gallery, London, 1904
References
• Cust, L., Eton College Portraits, 1910 (p.72)
