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Furniture: M0151
Title
David Garrick's Chippendale Stool
Technique
Mixed media
Subject
Artist
Date
c.1775
Dimensions
height: 43cm
width: 45cm
width: 45cm
Other materials
Wooden stool, painted green and white; cane seat
Provenance
A white painted wood, with green enrichments and cane seat, called "David Garrick's stool" was sold by Christie Mason & Woods December 14th 1905 "The Collection of Theatrical Relics, the property of Sir Henry Irving" lot 78. It was described: "It came from his study, called 'The Temple' at Garrick's Villa, Hampton Presented to the Garrick Club by Col. Lanyon, 1954
Other number
Gift 739
David Garrick's stool was part of the furnishings that he commissioned from Chippendale for his villa at Hampton. Chippendale was to work on the commission for ten years from 1768. Garrick is well known for his penchant for painted furniture and his commissions from Thomas Chippendale and this stool matches the famous pair of painted stools in the Theatre Museum, as part of the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum; in fact the stool was presented to the Theatre Museum on permanent loan in 1975, in order that the set could be seen together.
Contrary to belief painted furniture was not particulary cheap. David Garrick's wife Eva is said to have objected to "all those things which were Painted Green and white" which "are almost doubly charged for Painting only to what they have cost me originally." Neither was it considered particularly fashionable in this country at that time, although Garrick's continued patronage of Chippendale would soon change the current taste.
[This may be the stool of white painted wood, with green enrichments and cane seat, called "David Garrick's stool" which was sold by Christie Mason & Woods December 14th 1905 "The Collection of Theatrical Relics, the property of Sir Henry Irving" lot 78. It was described: "It came from his study, called 'The Temple' at Garrick's Villa, Hampton. Bought at the sale of his effects by Mrs. E. Brett, inherited by her grandson, John Timothy; afterwards purchased by Miss Genevieve Ward, and presnted to her by Sir Henry Irving in 1893.]
Contrary to belief painted furniture was not particulary cheap. David Garrick's wife Eva is said to have objected to "all those things which were Painted Green and white" which "are almost doubly charged for Painting only to what they have cost me originally." Neither was it considered particularly fashionable in this country at that time, although Garrick's continued patronage of Chippendale would soon change the current taste.
[This may be the stool of white painted wood, with green enrichments and cane seat, called "David Garrick's stool" which was sold by Christie Mason & Woods December 14th 1905 "The Collection of Theatrical Relics, the property of Sir Henry Irving" lot 78. It was described: "It came from his study, called 'The Temple' at Garrick's Villa, Hampton. Bought at the sale of his effects by Mrs. E. Brett, inherited by her grandson, John Timothy; afterwards purchased by Miss Genevieve Ward, and presnted to her by Sir Henry Irving in 1893.]
