A Mother and her Four Daughters

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Hospitality, Lancaster House

Samuel de Wilde was born to Dutch parents who had settled in London by the late 1740s. He was initially apprenticed as a joiner, but he cut his training short to enrol at the Royal Academy Schools in 1769, the year after the foundation of the Academy. Many of his early works from the 1770s are portraits, but it was with specifically theatrical portraits that he made his name. His studio was in Covent Garden, conveniently close for actors to visit him there and pose in costume.

People

unknown woman , unknown girl

Places

Subjects

flute, book, group portrait, tree, woman, girl, 19th century costume, dress, glove, family, daughter, mother, sister

Materials & Techniques

panel, oil, oil painting

Artist

Samuel de Wilde (1748 - 1832)

Title

A Mother and her Four Daughters

Date

c.1805-1810

Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

height: 62.00 cm, width: 49.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Phillips, December 1989

Inscription

none

Provenance

Sold through Phillips, London, on 12 Decemebr 1989 (Lot 40); from which sale purchased by the Government Art Collection

GAC number

16721