Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 -1834)
after Washington Allston (Georgetown 1779 - Cambridgeport 1843)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1814
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1104 x 875 mm
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Coleridge Cottage, Somerset
NT 253348
Caption
This oil painting shows Coleridge, age 42, and is a full size copy by young Bristol artist James Curnock (1812-62). The original portrait was made by Coleridge's American friend Washington Allston, to be hung in Poole's house in the village.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) after Washington Allston (Georgetown 1779 - Cambridgeport 1843) from the original paintings at Dove Cottage and Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere, 1814 (NPG). A half-length portrait of the poet, seated and looking to the left in an eccleciastical interior. He has his right hand inside his coat and his left is resting on his left leg on top of a red scarf and holding a letter.
Provenance
Thomas Poole, Stowey; on loan from Friends of Coleridge.
Credit line
Friends of Coleridge
Makers and roles
after Washington Allston (Georgetown 1779 - Cambridgeport 1843), artist