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Mrs Cardwell

Oil Painting
ca. 1865 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Boxall, William (Sir) (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (painted)

This painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1865. The Art Journal critic thought it ' a good example of the artist's mode...grey, vaporous, suggestive and cloudy, as if the head were "out of focus" ' (1865, p.168). The sitter was identified in the 1893 and 1901 Royal Academy catalogues as Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Birley, and widow of John Cardwell of Liverpool (1781-1831); their son, Edward Cardwell MP owned the painting in 1867.


Object details

Categories
Paintings
Portraits
Object type
Oil painting
TitleMrs Cardwell (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on canvas
Oil
Canvas
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil on canvas, 'Mrs Cardwell', Sir William Boxall, RA, FRS, ca. 1865
Physical description
Oil on canvas; half-length portrait of a woman in a dark cloak, facing right
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 91.5cm
  • Estimate width: 71.2cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Credit line
Bequeathed by Miss F. M. Cardwell
Object history
Bequeathed by Miss F. M. Cardwell, 1917
Production
Exhibited at RA 1865
Summary
This painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1865. The Art Journal critic thought it ' a good example of the artist's mode...grey, vaporous, suggestive and cloudy, as if the head were "out of focus" ' (1865, p.168). The sitter was identified in the 1893 and 1901 Royal Academy catalogues as Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Birley, and widow of John Cardwell of Liverpool (1781-1831); their son, Edward Cardwell MP owned the painting in 1867.
Bibliographic reference
Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 8-9
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
P.3-1917

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Record createdApril 20, 2006
Record URL
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