Amelia Alderson, Mrs John Opie (1769-1853)
John Opie, RA (St Agnes 1761 – London 1807)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1799 (exh at RA)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
635 x 908 mm (25 x 35 3/4 in)
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Trerice, Cornwall
NT 337018
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Amelia Alderson, Mrs John Opie (1769-1853) by John Opie, RA (St Agnes 1761 – London 1807), 1799. A double half-length portrait of Opie's second wife, that on the left is facing, in white dress; that on the right a bust in profile to the left, in black dress, holding a mandolin. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1799, a year after they married, and an observer noted in the Whitehall Evening Post, 27 April 1799 the portrait of Mrs Opie 'who is painted in the same canvass in two points of view'. [information kindly supplied by Viv Hendra of the Lander Gallery, Truro 2014]. A copy that was recorded at Chyverton House, Truro Cornwall (Rogers, 1878) is now in a private collection in Cornwall.
Provenance
Thomas Alderson (Amelia's cousin); Reverend John Carr, rector of Adisham, Kent and Miss Briggs, Mrs John Carr (daughter of the artist Henry Perronet Briggs, RA and Eliza Alderson); by descent to their daughter, Miss Ethel Carr, after 1911, and bequeathed by her to Colonel J. N. Haynes; [...]; bequeathed by Rosalie Glynn Grylls, Lady Mander (1905-1988) of Wightwick Manor to the National Trust
Makers and roles
John Opie, RA (St Agnes 1761 – London 1807), artist
References
Earland 1911 Ada Earland, John Opie and his Circle, 1911, illus. opp. p. 174 & p. 304 Rogers 1878 John Jope Rogers, Opie and his Works, London, Colnaghi, 1878