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Richard Coffin (d.1796)

Gilbert Stuart (North Kingstown, Rhode Island 1755 - Boston 1828)

Category

Art / Oil paintings

Date

1778 - 1781

Materials

Oil on canvas

Measurements

762 x 635 mm (30 x 25 in)

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Collection

Saltram, Devon

NT 872139

Summary

Oil painting on canvas, Richard Coffin (d.1796) by Gilbert Stuart (North Kingstown, Rhode Island 1755 - Boston 1828), inscribed on frame [erroneously] Stuart, pinxit 1781. A half- length portrait of Richard Bennett, who assumed the name of Coffin. He is facing to the right, on the left wearing a blue coat with gold buttons, buff waistcoat and white stock. He was the last male descendant of an old Devon family. Estate bequeathed to his nephews, the younger of whom eventually succeeded. The estate passed to the Rev. John Pine, whose descendants thereafter called themselves Pine-Coffin.

Provenance

Accepted by the Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877–1951) and transferred to the Trust in 1957

Credit line

Saltram, The Morley Collection (accepted in lieu of tax by HM Treasury, and transferred to The National Trust in 1957)

Marks and inscriptions

Recto: in black, bottom left: Rd. Coffin Esqr Recto: bottom right: Stuart, pinxit 1781.

Makers and roles

Gilbert Stuart (North Kingstown, Rhode Island 1755 - Boston 1828), artist

References

Saltram, Devon, 1967 The Saltram Collection, Plympton, Devon [National Trust; F. St. John Gore], 1967, p.53; p.59

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