Gerald Wellesley, Dean of Windsor (1809-1882) Signed and dated 1877
Oil on canvas | 68.0 x 55.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 401376
Heinrich von Angeli (1840-1925)
Gerald Wellesley, Dean of Windsor (1809-1882) Signed and dated 1877
Heinrich von Angeli (1840-1925)
Gerald Wellesley, Dean of Windsor (1809-1882) Signed and dated 1877
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In 1854 Gerald Wellesley was appointed Dean of Windsor. He was Queen Victoria’s chief adviser on church matters; acted as a ‘healthy and independent influence’ upon the Queen and the Prince Consort; and was opposed to the nomination of bishops on purely political grounds. In 1884, when Tait was thought to be dying, Gladstone wished to nominate him Archbishop of Canterbury. At his death the Queen described him as ‘The last of her valued old friends & the most intimate of all…made allowances for everything & was such a wise, excellent adviser.’ Queen Victoria wrote to the Crown Princess on 25 April 1877 that Von Angeli was painting ‘our good old Dean’. Von Angeli was paid £150 for the portrait in 1877 and it was one of the pictures exhibited by Von Angeli in the Austrian section of the Paris exhibition in 1878. The frame is by Vokins.
Provenance
Painted for Queen Victoria; recorded at Windsor Castle in 1878
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
68.0 x 55.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
91.5 x 78.2 x 4.7 cm (frame, external)