Amelia Alderson, Mrs John Opie (1769-1853)
John Opie, RA (St Agnes 1761 – London 1807)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1798 - 1802
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
749 x 619 mm (29 1/2 x 24 3/8 in)
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Trerice, Cornwall
NT 337055
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Amelia Alderson, Mrs John Opie (1769-1853) by John Opie, RA (St Agnes 1761 – London 1807), 1798/1802. Amelia was the second wife of John Opie and a novelist.
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; [...]; given by Rosalie Glynn Grylls, Lady Mander (1905-1988) of Wightwick Manor to the National Trust in 1980.
Makers and roles
John Opie, RA (St Agnes 1761 – London 1807), artist
References
Earland 1911 Ada Earland, John Opie and his Circle, 1911, p. 303