The Sermon
Eugenio Lucas Velázquez y Padilla (Madrid 1817 – Madrid 1870)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1837 - 1870
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
686 x 521 mm (27 x 20 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Madrid
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Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446825
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Sermon by Eugenio Lucas Velázquez y Padilla (Madrid 1817 - Madrid 1870). The interior of a church with a priest addressing a congregation from the pulpit; light from the windows behind him floods the scene, which is bounded by curtains of pale crimson and turquoise at the sides and by figures in shadow in the foreground.
Provenance
Given with Upton House to the National Trust by Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted (1882 – 1948), in 1948, shortly before his death
Credit line
Upton House, The Bearsted Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Eugenio Lucas Velázquez y Padilla (Madrid 1817 – Madrid 1870), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Francisco de Goya (Fuendetodos 1746 - Bordeaux 1828), artist