William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, RA (Vienna 1834 - London 1890)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
Unknown
Materials
Watercolour on canvas
Measurements
1385 x 790 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Clevedon Court, North Somerset (Accredited Museum)
On show at
Clevedon Court, North Somerset, South West, National Trust
NT 624175
Caption
The Vanity Fair novelist William Makepeace Thackeray was a close friend of the 6th Baronet’s daughter, Jane. She was the model for several of Thackeray’s heroines.
Summary
Watercolour on canvas, William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, RA (Vienna 1834 - London 1890). A full-length portrait, a study for a statuette.
Makers and roles
Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, RA (Vienna 1834 - London 1890), artist
References
Clevedon Court [The National Trust] revised 1972, 1974, 1977, 1979, p.27: "At the top of the stair hangs a remarkable full-length cartoon of William Makepeace Thackeray, by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm R.A., lega set firmly apart, hands in grouser pockets, frock coat thrown back, with his chin jutting forward under a head of thick white hair. It is a study for a bronze statuette of which one example is in the National Portrait Gallery and another in the Garrick Club. Beyond him the passage leads past the so-called Thackeray room, where there are portraits of Thackeray, Jane Octavia Brookfield and the Hallam family, through a 14th century arch, to the landing outside the State Bedroom."