The Artist's Studio: Edward Villiers Rippingille (1798-1859) painting a Portrait
Edward Villiers Rippingille (King’s Lynn 1798 – Birmingham 1859)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1822 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
394 x 546 mm (15 1/2 x 21 1/4 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Clevedon Court, North Somerset
NT 624193
Summary
Oil painting on panel, The Artist's Studio: Edward Villiers Rippingille (1798-1859) painting a Portrait, by Edward Villiers Rippingille (King's Lynn 1798- Birmingham 1859), signed and dated 1822. The young Rippingille is seated on a high-backed wooden chair on the right in front of an easel facing his sitter on the left, also seated but in a red wing chair. On the left is a table with a green cloth on which is a vase of flowers, to the right of the table is the sitter, balding and clean-shaven, wearing a brown coat, cream-coloured waistcoat and breeches, and riding boots, his top hat rests on his knee and is held in his right hand. Behind him in the studio hangs a painting, and an empty frame, guitar and many books. The tall easel takes a prominent position in the centre and has a cream coloured canvas on it. To the right of the easel sits the artist, with his pallette and brushes in left hand and a brush in his right, he has brown hair and long sideburns and wears a long grey coat, dark trousers, reddish slippers a white shirt, a very high black stock above which appear the points of his shirt collar. To the far right is a tall fireplace and in front on the right is a stool, and on the floor lie five books and a maul stick.
Provenance
Accepted in lieu of tax 1995 from the estate of Lady Margaret Ann Elton (1915 -1995) and transferred to The National Trust in 1998
Credit line
Clevedon Court, The Elton Collection (accepted in lieu by HM Government and transferred to The National Trust in 1998)
Makers and roles
Edward Villiers Rippingille (King’s Lynn 1798 – Birmingham 1859), artist
References
Clevedon Court [The National Trust] revised 1972, 1974, 1977, 1979, p.28: "The State Room....On the other side of the window is his [Edward Villiers Rippingille's] self portrait, faced by a dauntingly dull sitter."