Dr Charles Trimnell (1663-1723), Bishop of Norwich and later of Winchester
circle of Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1715 - circa 1719
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1230 x 990 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 959416
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Dr Charles Trimnell (1663-1723), Bishop of Norwich and later of Winchester, circle of Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1656/9 – London 1743), circa 1715-19. A three-quarter-length, seated portrait of a man, turned to the right, his head turned back to face the viewer. He is shown wearing episcopal robes and a long wig. He rests his right hand on a red book on the table to the left, where three further books with red spines can be seen standing on the table behind him. Trimnell married Elizabeth, the sister of Sir Rowland Winn, 3rd Baronet, in 1719. He served as a guardian to his young nephew, Sir Rowland Winn, 4th Baronet, after his father died in 1722. The painting is framed in a mid-18th-century Salvator Rosa derived architrave frame, carved softwood, oil gilded.
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust by private treaty sale from Lord St Oswald in 2010
Credit line
Nostell Priory, The St Oswald Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
circle of Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1659 - London 1743), artist previously catalogued as attributed to British (English) School, artist Thomas Chippendale (Otley 1718 - London 1779) , framemaker
References
Brockwell 1915 Maurice Walter Brockwell, Catalogue of the Pictures and Other Works of Art in the Collection of Lord St Oswald at Nostell Priory, London 1915, cat. 75