John Linnell, 'Samuel Rogers', 1846
About the work
Overview
Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) was a minor poet and an important collector of art. Although not everyone rated Rogers' poetic talents highly, his verses were popular and he commissioned J.M.W. Turner to illustrate two of his poetry collections.
A National Gallery Trustee from 1834, Rogers bequeathed three works to the Gallery: Titian’s Noli Me Tangere; A Knight in Armour by an imitator of Giorgione and Ecce Homo after Guido Reni.
This is a replica of an earlier portrait dated 1835 and now in the Tate, London. Both versions are painted on wooden panel; the original version is slightly smaller. In each, only the face is painted to any degree of finish and the pose is identical. Linnell painted the original and the replica in the hope that he would find an engraver to produce prints from them, but he was not successful.
Key facts
Details
- Full title
- Samuel Rogers
- Artist
- John Linnell
- Artist dates
- 1792 - 1882
- Date made
- 1846
- Medium and support
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- 44 × 36.5 cm
- Acquisition credit
- Bought, 1926
- Inventory number
- NG4142
- Location
- Not on display
- Collection
- Main Collection
Provenance
Additional information
Text extracted from the ‘Provenance’ section of the catalogue entry in Judy Egerton, ‘National Gallery Catalogues: The British Paintings’, London 2000; for further information, see the full catalogue entry.
Bibliography
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1854G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being and Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated Mss. […], vol. 2, trans. E. Eastlake, London 1854
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1889P.W. Clayden, Samuel Rogers and His Contemporaries, London 1889
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1892A.T. Storey, Life of John Linnell, London 1892
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1902W. Hazlitt, 'The Spirit of the Age', in A.R. Waller and A. Glover (eds), Collected Works of William Hazlitt, London 1902, vol. 4
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1946Davies, Martin, National Gallery Catalogues: British School, London 1946
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1946M. Davies, Paintings and Drawings on the Backs of National Gallery Pictures, London 1946
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1948H. Pearson, The Smith of Smiths, London 1948
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1959Davies, Martin, National Gallery Catalogues: British School, 2nd edn (revised), London 1959
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1960Survey of London: The Parish of St. James Westminster, London 1960
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1964P. Quennell, Journal of Thomas Moore, 1818-1841, London 1964
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1978A. Macintyre and K. Garlick (eds), The Diary of Joseph Farington, vol. 5, New Haven 1978-1984
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1978D. Robertson, Sir Charles Eastlake and the Victorian Art World, Princeton 1978
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1979E. Panofsky, 'Detached Thoughts', in L.A. Marchand (ed.), Byron's Letters and Journals, London 1979, vol. 9
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1981C.R. Sandars and K.J. Fielding (eds), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Durham, NC 1981
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1985R.J.B. Walker, Regency Portraits, London 1985
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1988S. Bennett, Thomas Stothard, Columbia 1988
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1998J. Egerton, The British School, London 1998
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2000Egerton, Judy, National Gallery Catalogues: The British Paintings, revised edn, London 2000
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2001
C. Baker and T. Henry, The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue, London 2001
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