Portrait of Edward Bird RA

Edward Villers Rippingille (1798 - 1859)

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

1817

Full length profile portrait showing the artist seated at his easel.

• Medium: oil on panel
• Dimensions: 34.1 x 26.2cm
• Art Fund Grant: £5000 ( Total: £20,000)
• ArtFunded in: 2002
• Vendor: Edward Villiers Rippingille III

Provenance

John Haythorne, Hill House, Mangotsfield, near Bristol, by 1820; sale of his collection at Hill House by English and Fasana, 1839; George Weare Braikenridge, Brislington, near Bristol from 1839; by descent through Braikenridge and then Hale families; posthumous sale of the collection of Alfred Matthew Hale by Jacobs & Hunt, Petersfield, 1960, in contents of the White House, Rake, Hants; St Leger Galleries, Old Bond Street, London by 1962; bought by E V Rippingille Junior, father of vendor.

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