Sir Charles Dyke Acland, 8th/12th Baronet of Columb-John, MP (1842-1919)
Sir Hubert von Herkomer, CVO, RA (Waal 1849 – Budleigh Salterton 1914)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1894 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
736 x 635 mm (29 x 25 in)
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Killerton, Devon
NT 922273
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Sir Charles Dyke Acland, 8th/12th Baronet of Columb-John, MP (1842-1919) by Sir Hubert von Herkomer (1849-1914), signed and dated mid-right, with sweeping brush-strokes: H.H.94 [1894]. A half-length portrait of a mature man, half-length, seated, turned three-quarter profile to the right and gazing to the right, his right hand comes down to the picture frame, his left hand is cut off by it. He has dark brown hair, moustache and beard, and wears a black coat, white shirt and red tie. He was the son of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland 11th Bt (1809-1898) and Mary Mordaunt (d.1851), the daughter of Sir Charles Mordaunt Bt. In 1879 he married Gertrude Walrond, the daughter of Sir John Walrond, 1st Bt, but they had no children. He handed to the National Trust 8,000 acres of his Exmoor land on a 500-year lease.
Provenance
By descent until accepted in lieu by HM Government and transferred to the National Trust in 1995
Credit line
Killerton, The Acland Collection (accepted in lieu by HM Government and transferred to The National Trust in 1995)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Signed and dated centre right: with seeping brush-strokes and dated: HH ' 94 Recto: Inscribed on label: SIR CHARLES THOMAS DYKE ACLAND, / 12th Bt. – 1894 , / by Hubert Von Herkomer
Makers and roles
Sir Hubert von Herkomer, CVO, RA (Waal 1849 – Budleigh Salterton 1914), artist
References
Killerton House, Devon, 2000 [The National Trust] 2000, p.14. "THE DRAWING ROOM. OVER FIREPLACE: Sir Charles Acland, 13th Bt (1842-1919) by Sir Hubert von Herkomer (1849-1914). Writing to her brother-in-law in 1923, Eleanor Acland described Sir Charles's impact on Killerton: 'Uncle Charlie was very much under-vitalized; awfully good and dutiful, and conscientiously trying to live up to the older standards...For a few years he and Aunt Gertie bustled and fussed about, bought new furniture, altered the house from top to toe'." p.43. Illustrated. Caption to illustration: "Sir Charles Acland, 12th Bt, added the single-storey extension which includes the Study; painted by Hubert von Herkomer (Drawing Room)."