Mrs Cardwell
Oil Painting
ca. 1865 (painted)
ca. 1865 (painted)
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| Place of origin |
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
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| Object type | |
| Title | Mrs Cardwell (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Oil on canvas |
| 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 |
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| 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 | |
| Accession number | P.3-1917 |
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| Record created | April 20, 2006 |
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