Charlotte M. Yonge (1823 - 1901)
John Henry Lorimer (Edinburgh 1856 – Edinburgh 1936)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1882 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas.
Measurements
749 x 622 mm (29 1/2 x 24 1/2 in)
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Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 27417
Caption
This is a benign portrait of the novelist, a friend of the Gibbs family from Tyntesfield, in middle age. Born into a religious family in Otterbourne, Hampshire where she lived all her life, Charlotte was home-taught by her father. She began writing in 1848 and wrote some 160 works which showed the influence of the values and concerns of the Anglo-Catholicism of the Oxford Movement. John Keble, Vicar of Hursley was a neighbour and one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Charlotte M. Yonge (1823-1901) by John Henry Lorimer (Edinburgh 1856 – Edinburgh 1936), signed with monogram and dated, lower left, 1882. A head-and-shoulders portrait in almost profile, to left, as an elderly lady, wearing black dress and white fichu. The sitter was a prolific (more than 20 novels) Victorian writer and a close friend and relation of the Gibbs family. She was influenced by John Keble whose religious beliefs she shared.
Provenance
Commissioned by Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey, Mrs William Gibbs (1817-1887) in 1882; purchased from the estate of the late Lord Wraxall with the assistance of the NHMF and donations from members and supporters.
Credit line
Tyntesfield, The Gibbs Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
John Henry Lorimer (Edinburgh 1856 – Edinburgh 1936), artist