- Title:
- Portrait of a Woman aged about 45
- Object name(s):
- Picture; British
- Brief description:
- This painting and Portrait of a Man aged about 45, also in the National Gallery, were designed to hang together as portraits of a husband and wife. They are said to have been given by the painter Sir William Boxall RA, director of the National Gallery from 1865 to 1874, to his friend, the architect James Wyatt RA (1746--1813). Wyatt’s great-grandson, H.W. Standen, presented them to the National Gallery in 1964 as a 'Self-Portrait of William Boxall and a companion portrait of his wife'. However, the features in the man's portrait are unlike those in Boxall's Self Portrait at the Age of Nineteen, also in the National Gallery's collection, and he never married. It is now thought more likely that this is an early portrait by Boxall of his mother. The companion male portrait probably shows his father.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1964-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1964
- Date - latest:
- 1964
- Acquisition source:
- H.W. Standen
- Credit line:
- Presented by H.W. Standen, 1964
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 1/270/544/414/mid_N-6353-00-000010.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 30.20
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 25.60
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- oil on wood
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- wood
- Object name:
- Picture; British
- Object production date:
- about 1830
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1830
- Date - latest:
- 1830
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1825-49
- Object production person:
- British
- Object production person:
- Sir William Boxall
- Person's birth date:
- 1800
- Person's death date:
- 1879
- Object production place:
- Britain
- Object production place:
- London
- Other number:
- NG6353
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0EBD-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG6353
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-02XO-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng36353
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Owner:
- Sir William Boxall
- 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:
- three-quarter length portraits
- Style:
- female portraits
- Style:
- neoclassical
- Style:
- Georgian
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 74
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: June 1962 - December 1964
- Reference details:
- 103
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/11c49f72-2a06-3a2a-892a-338ab5b07698
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/11c49f72-2a06-3a2a-892a-338ab5b07698, National Gallery, CC BY
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