Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey, Mrs William Gibbs (1817-1887)
Edmund Havell the younger (Reading 1819 – 1894)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1881 (signed and dated)
Materials
Pastel on paper
Measurements
629 x 502 mm (24 3/4 x 19 3/4 in)
Collection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 13624
Summary
Pastel, chalk and watercolour on paper (oval), Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey, Mrs William Gibbs (1817-1887) by Edmund Havell Junior (Reading 1819-1894), signed and dated, lower right: Edm Havell 1881. Portrait is fixed on front surface. On reverse is white label at centre base, / FROST and REED / PICTURE FRAME MAKER, No. 7014 Date 11/7/00 / in pencil. Back of picture bulging in frame and edged with brown gummed paper.
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust from the estate of the late George Richard Lawley Gibbs, 2nd Baron Wraxall (1928 – 2001) with the assistance of the NHMF, the Art Fund and donations from members and supporters in 2002
Makers and roles
Edmund Havell the younger (Reading 1819 – 1894), artist