© Watts Gallery
Alexander Constantine Ionides and his Wife Euterpe, with their Children
Artist: G F Watts (1817 - 1904)
Location: Watts Gallery
Date: 1840
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 153 x 184.5cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £21,272 (Total: £237,600)
Vendor: Sotheby's
Review number: 5539 (2005)
Provenance:
Commissioned by Alexander Constantine Ionides; his daughter, Aglaia Ionides, later Mrs Coronio; by family descent.
Description:
Alexander Constantine Ionides began a long and affectionate friendship with Watts in 1837 and this work was the first of many portrait commissions. The painting shows the couple with their four eldest children and may have been prompted by the birth of their fourth child in 1840 or by their move to Tulse Hill the same year. The two eldest brothers are depicted wearing Greek national dress, a motif introduced to demonstrate the pride that the family took in their Greek ancestry.
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