Large 19th Century portrait of Lady Sophia Wood, oil on canvas by Gilbert Stuart Wood. Good quality and condition portrait of Lady Wood in a white dress with a jewelled headband and rose in her dressline. Presented in its original antique gilt frame with plaque.
Measurements: 39" x 33" framed approx
Artist Biography: Gilbert Stuart Newton
British, 19th century, male.
Born 20 September 1794, in Halifax (Nova Scotia), Canada; died 5 April 1835, in Chelsea.
Painter. History painting, genre scenes.
Gilbert Stuart Newton began his art studies in Boston with his maternal uncle, GilbertStuart. He visited Italy and Paris, and then went to London to become a pupil at the Royal Academy. Initially he adopted the style of Watteau, whom he admired immensely. He exhibited in London, mainly at the Royal Academy and the British Institution, from 1818 to 1833, when a brain disorder interrupted what promised to be a brilliant career. He became an associate of the Royal Academy in 1828 and a member in 1832. His works are notable for the quality of their colour and draughtsmanship.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Boston (MFA): Woman Abandoned; Goodbye; Spanish Girl at a Window; Woman Forgotten; Self-portrait
Dublin: James Kenny
Glasgow: Inconsolable
Liverpool (Walker AG): Portrait of James Murray
London (Tate Collection): Yorick and the Grisette (exhibited in 1830, oil on canvas); A Dutch Girl (`The Window') (exhibited in 1829, oil/wood)
London (Victoria and Albert Mus.): Portia and Bassano (The Merchant of Venice); Return of Olivia (The Vicar of Wakefield); Sir Walter Scott
London (Wallace Collection): The Gentle Student (1829, oil/millboard)
New York (Metropolitan Mus. of Art): Woman Abandoned
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