Caroline Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs Charles Phelips (1796-1876)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1830
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1246 x 991 mm (49 x 39 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Montacute House, Somerset
NT 597963
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Caroline Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs Charles Phelips (1796-1876), British (English) School, circa 1830. Portrait of a young woman, three-quarter-length, standing, turned slightly to the left and gazing at spectator; brown hair with ringlets to each side of her face, wearing a dark green velvet dress almost off the shoulder, with short sleeves and falling lace ruffles, her right hand on a large crimson curtain draped over a table or plinth, on the left, her left hand by her side; behind the drape a large oriental vase shown in front of flowered wall covering, behind her to the right a glazed window showing shrubbery and a clouded sky . Married Charles Phelips the son of the Revd Charles Phelips (1765-1834) and Mary Blackmore (d.1816).
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust for Montacute by Commander Guy V.A.Phelips (1895-1974)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Gilt tablet affixed to bottom of frame, inscribed in black paint:
Makers and roles
British (English) School, publisher
References
Montacute House, Somerset, 1991 [The National Trust; Malcolm Rogers] 1991, p.83 "THE GROUND FLOOR CORRIDOR (THE LOWER CLIFTON MAYBANK CORRIDOR) PAINTINGS NORTH END Caroline Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs Charles Phelips (1796-1876) Companion portrait to the above [597962] Unknown artist, c.1840-5." Montacute House, Somerset, 1997 [The National Trust; Malcolm Rogers] 1991, revised 1997 , p.83 "THE GROUND FLOOR CORRIDOR (THE LOWER CLIFTON MAYBANK CORRIDOR) PAINTINGS NORTH END Caroline Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs Charles Phelips (1796-1876) Companion portrait to the above [597962] Unknown artist, c.1840-5."