Charles Paget Wade (1883 - 1956)
K. Browning
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1950
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
600 x 495 mm
Place of origin
St Kitts
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1336232
Caption
The sitter, creator and donor of Snowshill Manor, was the son of Paget Augustus Wade (1849 - 1911), a part-owner of sugar plantations, and his wife, Amy Blanche (1858–1943), daughter of Charles Spencer, a Worcestershire curate. He was an artist, architect and collector. He wrote his memoir 'Days Far Away' in 1945. Here he is portrayed at the age of 68 by Miss K. Browning, the wife of the Vicar of St Kitts, West Indies - where he had a home - whom he commissioned to encourage her efforts as a artist.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Charles Paget Wade (1883 - 1956), aged 68, by K. Browning, circa 1950, A head-and-shoulders portrait of Charles Wade, painted by the wife of the Vicar of St Kitts. Painting signed K. browning in bottom right corner, and on stretched on reverse of canvas. Ornate carved gold painted frame. Wooden plaque attached by two pins to frame below portrait , stating ‘Charles P. Wade Snowshill Manor 1919-1951’. 'Charles Wade commissioned this portrait to encourage her efforts as a artist' (M. Jessup).
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor by Charles Paget Wade (1883 - 1956) in 1951
Makers and roles
K. Browning, artist