© Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum
Portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Artist: Charles Robert Leslie (1794 - 1859)
Location: Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum
Date: circa 1820
Materials: pencil, charcoal & chalk
Dimensions: 30.5 x 26.7cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £16,378 (Total: £32,890)
Vendor: Bonhams
Review number: 5547 (2005)
Description:
Coleridge told a friend that he did not feel that it was an image that he had 'sat for', but rather was one which 'Lesly (sic) contrived to take'. What is remarkable is that it catches an irregularity in Coleridge's mouth. The mouth was always an area of Coleridge's portrait which he, himself, loathed. The probability is that Coleridge suffered from adenoids, and therefore could not breathe without his mouth being open.
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