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G0847
Paintings: G0847
Title
Margaret Woffington, called
Technique
Oil on canvas
Subject
Artist
Dimensions
Height: 70cm
Width: 91.5cm
height (frame): 89cm
width (frame): 109cm
Width: 91.5cm
height (frame): 89cm
width (frame): 109cm
Inscription/signature
"Reicrem" (brown paint b. l.)
Provenance
Charles Mathews
Other number
Mathews 11
RW/CKA 402 (repr.)
RW/CKA 402 (repr.)
Exhibition history
1833 London, Queen's Bazaar, Oxford Street, "Mr Mathews's Gallery of Theatrical Portraits" (11)
1950-1 London, Royal Academy, "British Painting" (?) (180)
1951 London, Tate Gallery, "Pictures from the Garrick Club" (28)
1958 Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, "Painting and Sculpture in the Eighteenth Century" (33)
1969 York, City Art Gallery and London, Kenwood House, "Philip Mercier" (35)
2001-02 London, Tate Britain "Tate Britain Displays 2002"
Literature
Fitzgerald, p. 181 (said to have been commissioned by David Garrick); Griffiths p. 315; John Ingamells and Robert Raines “A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Etchings of Philip Mercier” (Walpole Society 1976-78), 46:49, No. 203
The sitter contemplates the miniature of a man (said to be Garrick) in a red jacket. She wears a low-necked silver silk dress with pink ribbon. A large brown dog peers over from the right.
Ingamells and Raines date this picture about 1735-36, and call it "Woman in Love," noting that the identification with Peg Woffington is unconvincing and the subject evidently fanciful.
Ingamells and Raines date this picture about 1735-36, and call it "Woman in Love," noting that the identification with Peg Woffington is unconvincing and the subject evidently fanciful.
