Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey, Mrs William Gibbs (1817 -1888)
Walter Charles Horsley (London 1855 – 1934)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1888 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
914 x 711 mm (36 x 28 in)
Order this imageCollection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 21149
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey, Mrs William Gibbs (1817-1888) by Walter Charles Horsley (London 1855-1934). Posthumous portrait from a drawing by Edward Clifford (Bristol 1844-1907). Signed on the reverse / Walter C. Horsley 1888 / from drawing by / E Clifford. A three-quarter-length portrait, seated in a garden, in profile to right, wearing a black dress with white lace shawl and cuffs, black bonnet and a large crucifix. She also has chains hanging from her waist.
Provenance
Commisioned by sitter in 1888; 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)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Label fastened to frame reads, MATILDA BLANCHE GIBBS. BORN 1817. DIED ...7/WIFE OF WILLIAM GIBBS OF TYNTESFIELD/AND DAUGHTER OF SIR THOMAS CRAWLEY BOEVEY/3RD BARONET OF FLAXLEY ABBET GLOUCESTERSHIRE/BY H.C.HORSLEY.
Makers and roles
Walter Charles Horsley (London 1855 – 1934), publisher after Edward Clifford (Bristol 1844 - 1907), publisher
References
Tyntesfield 1910 Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings at Tyntesfield, 1910 , p.25 (in Gallery).