Regency family portrait
SOLD A very beautiful Regency family portrait: “Lady Maria Stanley & her daughters Alethea and Maud” watercolour dated 1811 by Henry Edridge. Henry Edridge was a portrait painter and landscape draughtsman, born 1769 in Paddington, dying in London in 1821. He was apprenticed to the mezzotint engraver William Pether, acquiring an eye for detail in this meticulous work, also studying Pether’s work as a miniaturist. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1784, where Sir Joshua Reynolds much admired Edridge’s copies of his work & where he won a Silver Medal. Edridge set up his own portraiture business in 1789 and became well known for a style of portraiture that combined the delicacy of miniature painting with breadth of draughtsmanship.
As well as painting in oils, he made a large number of watercolour portraits. He would draw his subjects in soft lead pencil, applying watercolour with the stippling technique and using washes of colour to enrich drapery. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy (A.R.A.) in 1820, having exhibited over 200 works there from 1782 until 1821.
His work is represented in the collections of the Dublin National Gallery, the National Gallery of Scotland, the British Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Tate Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum, London and number of provincial galleries. The work has been fully conserved and retains its original frame. Framed dimensions: 34.5cm wide x 43cm tall.
AU$4,850
SOLD A very beautiful Regency family portrait: “Lady Maria Stanley & her daughters Alethea and Maud” watercolour dated 1811 by Henry Edridge. Henry Edridge was a portrait painter and landscape draughtsman, born 1769 in Paddington, dying in London in 1821. He was apprenticed to the mezzotint engraver William Pether, acquiring an eye for detail in this meticulous work, also studying Pether’s work as a miniaturist. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1784, where Sir Joshua Reynolds much admired Edridge’s copies of his work & where he won a Silver Medal. Edridge set up his own portraiture business in 1789 and became well known for a style of portraiture that combined the delicacy of miniature painting with breadth of draughtsmanship.
As well as painting in oils, he made a large number of watercolour portraits. He would draw his subjects in soft lead pencil, applying watercolour with the stippling technique and using washes of colour to enrich drapery. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy (A.R.A.) in 1820, having exhibited over 200 works there from 1782 until 1821.
His work is represented in the collections of the Dublin National Gallery, the National Gallery of Scotland, the British Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Tate Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum, London and number of provincial galleries. The work has been fully conserved and retains its original frame. Framed dimensions: 34.5cm wide x 43cm tall.
AU$4,850
SOLD A very beautiful Regency family portrait: “Lady Maria Stanley & her daughters Alethea and Maud” watercolour dated 1811 by Henry Edridge. Henry Edridge was a portrait painter and landscape draughtsman, born 1769 in Paddington, dying in London in 1821. He was apprenticed to the mezzotint engraver William Pether, acquiring an eye for detail in this meticulous work, also studying Pether’s work as a miniaturist. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1784, where Sir Joshua Reynolds much admired Edridge’s copies of his work & where he won a Silver Medal. Edridge set up his own portraiture business in 1789 and became well known for a style of portraiture that combined the delicacy of miniature painting with breadth of draughtsmanship.
As well as painting in oils, he made a large number of watercolour portraits. He would draw his subjects in soft lead pencil, applying watercolour with the stippling technique and using washes of colour to enrich drapery. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy (A.R.A.) in 1820, having exhibited over 200 works there from 1782 until 1821.
His work is represented in the collections of the Dublin National Gallery, the National Gallery of Scotland, the British Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Tate Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum, London and number of provincial galleries. The work has been fully conserved and retains its original frame. Framed dimensions: 34.5cm wide x 43cm tall.
AU$4,850