Portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thomas Phillips (1770 - 1845)

Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum

1818 - 1821

The portrait shows the poet Coleridge (1772-1834) seated half-length wearing a black coat and holding a silver snuff-box in his right hand.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 91.5 x 65.5cm
• Art Fund Grant: £23828 ( Total: £49,642)
• ArtFunded in: 2001
• Vendor: Christie's

Provenance

Commissioned by Bishop William Hart Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's nephew, and by descent.

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