Adelaide Anne ('Mary Berick') Procter

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Adelaide Anne ('Mary Berick') Procter

by Emma Gaggiotti Richards
oil on canvas, feigned oval
37 1/2 in. x 31 in. (953 mm x 787 mm)
Bequeathed by the sitter's mother, Mrs Anne Procter, 1888
Primary Collection
NPG 789

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  • Ormond, Richard, Early Victorian Portraits, 1973, p. 385
  • Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 507
  • Simon, Jacob, The Art of the Picture Frame: Artists, Patrons and the Framing of Portraits in Britain, 1997 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 8 November 1996 - 9 February 1997), p. 64, 159 Read entry

    Carved and gilt pine, mitred and keyed, the corners planted, fine grade sand on the flat, the oil gilding original and rather friable. 3 3⁄ 4 inches wide.

    With its ogee section, finely gadrooned top edge, and corners of stylised shells and rosettes set on a sanded ground between C-scrolls overlaid with foliage, this is an English version of a French frame type. The style found favour from about 1745 to 1770 and as such this frame is later than the picture. With its straight sides, the type has been aptly described as 'rococo only at the corners'. Although apparently flowing out of the sides, these corners would have been made separately, as the hair-line cracks in the frame confirm. The pattern was a popular one, and probably was used by several workshops. It is found on various portraits by Allan Ramsay of the period 1747-67,1 and on the work of Reynolds, Gainsborough and other artists.2

    1 Jacob Simon, 'Allan Ramsay and picture frames', Burlington Magazine, vol.CXXXVI, 1994, p 447.

    2 For example, see Nicholas Penny, 'Reynolds and picture frames', Burlington Magazine, vol.CXXVIII, 1986, p 822, fig.55.

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Current affairs

Cardinal Wiseman, a Catholic priest who had exerted a strong influence on the Oxford movement, is made a Cardinal and leader of the Catholic church in England, thus restoring Roman Catholic hierarchy in England.

Art and science

Death of poet laureate William Wordsworth; his great autobiographical poem The Prelude is published posthumously, famously charting the growth of the poet's mind.
Tennyson's In Memoriam is also published. A poignant record of his grief over the death of his friend Arthur Hallam, the poem also movingly questions the strength of faith in an increasingly scientific age.

International

Up to 50,000 pioneers travel west in wagons on the Oregon trail in the United States, one of the main overland migration routes across the continent. Spanning over half the continent, the trail led 2,170 miles through territories and land which would later become six US states, including Kansas, Wyoming and Oregon, helping the US to implement its goal of Manifest Destiny - building a nation spanning the North American continent.

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Antonella Casassa

24 July 2022, 20:07

Adelaide Anne ('Mary Berick') Procter
by Emma Gaggiotti Richards