Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley (1842-1904) politician
Sir Hubert von Herkomer (1849 - 1914)
Henry Scott Bridgewater (1864 - 1946)
Mezzotint
1 September 1892-
About the work
- Location
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection
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About the artist
Hubert von Herkomer was born in Waal, Bavaria. In 1857, his family settled in Southampton, England. He later studied at the Department of Science and Art, South Kensington, where he took up illustration. In 1875, he exhibited ‘The Last Muster: Sunday in the Royal Hospital, Chelsea’ at the Royal Academy, to great acclaim. From 1873, he lived with his parents in the village of Bushey, Hertfordshire, later commissioning American architect Henry Hobson Richardson to design ‘Lululaund’, a castle-like residence in Bushey. Herkomer also founded an Art School in Bushey and succeeded Ruskin as Slade Professor of Art at Oxford University from 1885. In 1907, he was knighted. He died at the age of 64 during a trip to Devon.
Henry Scott Bridgewater was a mezzotint engraver of portraits and sentimental subjects. His engravings were made after 18th- and early 19th-century works by British artists, as well as works by contemporary artists.
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Explore
- Places
- Subjects
- male portrait, 19th century costume, trousers, tie, lamp, Home Secretary, Member of Parliament, chair, table (as Subject)
- Materials & Techniques
- mezzotint
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Details
- Title
- Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley (1842-1904) politician
- Date
- 1 September 1892
- Medium
- Mezzotint
- Acquisition
- Transferred from HM Treasury, April 1992
- GAC number
- 16790