Art Funded
Thomas Wilkinson
© Wordsworth Trust
Matthew Ellis Nutter (1795 - 1862)
Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum
1820 - 1836
A portrait of Thomas Wilkinson (1751-1836) sitting holding a book upright on his lap with one hand. Wilkinson was a Quaker and minor poet and writer who was well connected with Burke, Clarkson, Wordsworth and Coleridge. He is best known for inspiring lines in Wordsworth poem 'The Solitary Reaper'.
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 29 x 23cm
- Art Fund Grant: £5000 ( Total: £13,500)
- ArtFunded in: 2001
- Vendor: Private collector
Provenance
Mary Carr, Thomas Wilkinson's great-niece and biographer.
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