Antony Gibbs (1841 - 1907), aged 3
John Phillip, RA (Aberdeen 1817 - London 1867)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1844 (commissioned)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
570 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Somerset
Order this imageCollection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 20961.2
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Antony Gibbs (1841 - 1907), aged 3 by John Phillip, RA (Aberdeen 1817 - London 1867), 1844. A circular portrait showing both head and shoulders and wearing a white dress. A pair with portrait of Dorothea Harriet Gibbs as a child. The sitters were the two eldest children of William Gibbs and Matilda Crawley Boevey, his wife.
Provenance
Commissioned by Willam Gibbs, 1844; 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, Art Fund and donations from members and supporters in 2002
Credit line
Tyntesfield, The Gibbs Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
John Phillip, RA (Aberdeen 1817 - London 1867), publisher