- Title:
- Matthew Prior
- Object name(s):
- Picture
- Collection:
- Senate House Library
- Comments:
- Portrait of poet and diplomat Matthew Prior (164-1721) probably commissioned by Lord Chesterfield; after Jonathan Richardson (1667-1745, English). Prior's work held in Senate House Library includes the first editions of Prior's first and second collections of Poems on Several Occasions (1707, 1717).
- Conservation note:
- conserved by Painting Conservation Studio, 2016 (see conservation report)
- Dimension:
- 74 x 62 cm (ca)
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Normal location:
- Senate House
- Object history note:
- Gift, Sir Louis Sterling (1951, from Christies, 29 June 1951). Previously: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield; Henry Lascelles, later 6th Earl of Harewood (1918; from house sale, Leedam and Harrison, 15-25 July 1918.
- Object name:
- Picture
- Object number:
- PO-0125
- Object production date:
- 18th cent.
- Object production person:
- 18th century English school
- Person's association:
- Artist
- Person's birth date:
- 1700-1800
- Person's nationality:
- English
- Responsible department/section:
- Senate House Lib.
- User's reference:
- D. Piper, 'The Chesterfield House Library Portraits', in R. Wellek and A. Ribeiro (ed.), Evidence in Literary Scholarship (Oxford, 1979)
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/4667b748-2c67-3869-b589-3cf95c9e4ab7
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/4667b748-2c67-3869-b589-3cf95c9e4ab7, Senate House Library, CC BY-NC
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