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The Stage-Coach Breakfast

Edward Villiers Rippingille (King’s Lynn 1798 – Birmingham 1859)

Category

Art / Oil paintings

Date

1824 (signed and dated)

Materials

Oil on panel

Measurements

822 x 1337 mm (32 3/8 x 52 5/8 in)

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Collection

Clevedon Court, North Somerset

NT 624187

Caption

This is the artist's most important painting. In it he portrays many well-known writers, including William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who hands Wordsworth a boiled egg. This presumably imaginary scene in a coaching inn is designed to show off the association of such famous writers with the family of Sir Charles Abraham Elton of Clevedon Court, himself a gifted writer. Sir Charles's daughter, Julia Elizabeth can be seen pouring out the tea.

Summary

Oil painting on panel, The Stage-Coach Breakfast by Edward Villiers Rippingille (King’s Lynn 1798 – Birmingham 1859), signed and dated 1824. Rippingille's most important painting portrays many of the contributors to 'The London Magazine' and a number of members of Sir Charles Abraham Elton's family eg. Charles Lamb handing the bill, Coleridge holding a boiled egg for Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Robert Southey ogles Julia Elizabeth (pouring tea). With Caroline Lucy, Lucy Caroline, Laura Mary, Sarah Elton etc.

Provenance

Purchased from the artist by John Gibbons; Mrs John Gibbons, Christies's 17th March 1883, lot no. 119...... and thence by descent; purchased from Lady Margaret Ann Elton (1915 – 1995), 1981 with the help of grants from the V&A Purchase Fund and the NHMF

Makers and roles

Edward Villiers Rippingille (King’s Lynn 1798 – Birmingham 1859), artist

References

Clevedon Court [The National Trust] revised 1972, 1974, 1977, 1979, pp.27-28: The Bristol School of Artists: Francis Danby and Painting in Bristol 1810 - 1840, Francis Greenacre, 1973, no. 121

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