FDA-P.341-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.341-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Henry Beaufort Wilder of Purley
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Half-length painted portrait of a seated young man, writing in a book
Comments
Information from unpublished Margaret Carpenter catalogue by Richard J Smith, 1995.
Oil of canvas. 30x25". Attribution definite. Cust p.51. Sitters Book: 1853 Mr Wilder £31.10.6. [M53007] Although this is very late for an Margaret Carpenter Leaving Portrait, and the sitter was not a pupil of Coleridge, Margaret Carpenter had known the family since the early 1820s. She painted his father in 1829. The amount of this payment suggests there may be another one missing. Not seen.
The sitter was Rector of Sulham
At Eton 1843-1853
Oil of canvas. 30x25". Attribution definite. Cust p.51. Sitters Book: 1853 Mr Wilder £31.10.6. [M53007] Although this is very late for an Margaret Carpenter Leaving Portrait, and the sitter was not a pupil of Coleridge, Margaret Carpenter had known the family since the early 1820s. She painted his father in 1829. The amount of this payment suggests there may be another one missing. Not seen.
The sitter was Rector of Sulham
At Eton 1843-1853
Description
Content (person)
Dimensions
height (sight size): 750mm
width (sight size): 624mm
height (frame): 1075mm
width (frame): 948mm
depth (frame): 90mm
width (sight size): 624mm
height (frame): 1075mm
width (frame): 948mm
depth (frame): 90mm
Inscription
ID label on frame
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Elaborate gilt frame with plaster decoration
Production
Person
Date
1853
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter or his family; by whom presented to the Head Master of Eton College
