- Title:
- William Seguier
- Object name(s):
- Picture; British
- Brief description:
- William Seguier (1772--1843) was a picture dealer and picture cleaner. He was Superintendent of the British Institution from its foundation in 1805, Surveyor, Cleaner and Repairer of the King's Pictures from 1820 and Keeper of the National Gallery from its foundation in 1824. He continued in all three positions until his death. He also advised many private collectors on buying, hanging and cleaning paintings.Seguier's training in trade, the fact that he had never been to Italy and had a Cockney accent prompted continual jibes, but it was conceded that although he lacked airs and graces he was an excellent judge of pictures.Jackson's portrait shows Seguier at the age of 58. The artist, an old friend of the sitter, died before finishing the portrait, which was commissioned by one of Seguier's most wealthy private clients, George Watson Taylor MP.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1950-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1950
- Date - latest:
- 1950
- Acquisition source:
- Charles H. Seguier-Brown
- Credit line:
- Presented by Charles H. Seguier-Brown, great-grandson of the sitter, 1950
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 1/631/758/775/mid_N-6022-00-000011.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 78.70
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 65.40
- Form:
- None
- Inscription content:
- Inscribed
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; British
- Object production date:
- 1830
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1830
- Date - latest:
- 1830
- 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:
- NG6022
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0EAT-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG6022
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-02OD-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng36022
- Other number type:
- sort number
- 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:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 355
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The British School
- Reference details:
- 71
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The British Paintings
- Reference details:
- 388-98
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: 1938-1954
- Reference details:
- 96
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Catalogue of the Paintings in the Wellington Museum
- Reference details:
- 5-15
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The British School
- Reference details:
- 388-98
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Life and Works of John Jackson RA
- Reference details:
- 195-6
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The Diary of Benjamin Robert Haydon
- Reference details:
- 1.120, 3.453-61
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- A Dictionary of Artists of the English School
- Reference details:
- 366
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Report from the Select Committee on National Monuments and Works of Art
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Report from the Select Committee on Arts and Their Connexion With Manufactures
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Recollections of the British Institution
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Art in England 1821-1837
- Reference details:
- 68-72, 74, 93, 103, 120-3, 187, 197-8, 206, 220-3, 270, 345
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Obituary: William Seguier
- Reference details:
- 1028
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Obituary Notice
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The Founding of the National Gallery
- Reference details:
- 108
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- William Seguier, First Keeper of the National Gallery
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Obituary Notice
- Reference details:
- 3
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The Very Celebrated Collection of Painters' Etchings and Engravings of William Seguier, Esq., Deceased, Late Conservator of the Royal and National Galleries
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- A Catalogue of the Choice Cabinet of Pictures, Chiefly of the Dutch and English Schools, of William Seguier, Esq. Deceased: Late Conservator of the Royal and National Galleries
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Picture Frames and Picture Hanging in Apsley House
- Reference details:
- 17-20
- Reference note:
- Select Bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- William Seguier
- Reference details:
- 17.1145-6
- Reference note:
- Select Bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery : an illustrated history /Alan Crookham.
- Reference details:
- Ill. (p. 11)
- Reference type:
- reference
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