Portrait of the Artist's Mother
Artist: Sir Edwin Landseer (1802 - 1873)
Location: Gallery Oldham
Materials: chalk on paper
Dimensions: 25.4 x 22.9cm
Gift:
Review number: 5512 (2004)
Provenance:
Sidney Claridge Turner; National Loan Collection Trust.
Description:
Landseer's mother, Jane Potts (1774-1840) married John Landseer in 1793. She had 14 children of whom only 7 survived, three boys and four girls. Mrs Landseer was already 28 when Edwin was born but is depicted in this drawing as a young woman while the costume and hairstyle would suggest a date of 1815-1825. It may be that the sitter has been wrongly identified.
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