A Mother and her Four Daughters

Samuel de Wilde (1748 - 1832)

Oil on panel

c.1805-1810

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Government Hospitality, Lancaster House
  • About the artist
    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.
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  • Details
    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