- Title:
- Reverend William Holwell Carr
- Object name(s):
- Picture; British
- Brief description:
- The Reverend William Holwell Carr (1758--1830) was the son of an Exeter apothecary. In 1797 he married Lady Charlotte Hay, eldest daughter of the 15th Earl of Erroll and his wife Isabella Carr. The following year Lady Charlotte inherited large Carr estates in Northumberland.From about 1805, Holwell Carr was a 'gentleman-dealer' in paintings. As an amateur painter himself, he may also have touched up and restored pictures. He became one of the founding subscribers to the British Institution and lent generously to the Institution's exhibitions of old masters.His collection included Titian's Holy Family and a Shepherd, Claude's Landscape at the Cave of Adullam, Tintoretto's Saint George and the Dragon and Rembrandt's Woman bathing in a Stream. These were among the 35 paintings Holwell Carr bequeathed to the National Gallery six years after its foundation. He commissioned this portrait of himself when he was about 70 to be placed in the Gallery with his pictures.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1831-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1831
- Date - latest:
- 1831
- Acquisition source:
- Revd William Holwell Carr
- Associated concept:
- collectors
- Credit line:
- Holwell Carr Bequest, 1831
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 2/595/199/792/mid_N-0124-00-000041.jpg
- Current reproduction location:
- 3/5/89/78/mid_N-0124-00-000006.jpg
- Current reproduction location:
- 3/84/574/793/mid_N-0124-00-000039.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 75.60
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 62.90
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; British
- Object production date:
- about 1827-8
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1827
- Date - latest:
- 1828
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1825-49
- Object production person:
- John Jackson
- Person's birth date:
- 1778
- Person's death date:
- 1831
- Object production place:
- Britain
- Object production place:
- London
- Other number:
- NG124
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0F9V-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG124
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-03LM-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng2124
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Owner:
- Revd William Holwell Carr
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- half length portraits
- Style:
- male portraits
- Style:
- neoclassical
- Style:
- Georgian
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The British Paintings
- Reference details:
- 399-405
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The British School
- Reference details:
- 87
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 354
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The British School
- Reference details:
- 70-1
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Life and Works of John Jackson RA
- Reference details:
- 263
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
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