Choosing the wedding gown
William Mulready Ennis 1786 - London 1863
Proceeds : 3.600 €
Oil/canvas, 60 x 50 cm, sign. up. ri. W. Mulready, rest., relined. - Most likely another version by this artist after the well known painting in the Victoria & Albert Museum. Inspired by Oliver Goldsmith's novel 'The Vicar of Wakefield' (1766) opening with the words: 'I had scarce taken orders a year before I began to think seriously of matrimony and chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but for such qualities as would waer well.' Mulready is known to have produced replicas after the original. Mus.: London (Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Gallery et.al.), Dublin, Edinburgh, Leeds, Paris (Louvre), Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Heleniak 'W.M.' (1980), Pointon 'W.M.' (exh.cat. 1986) et.al.
William Mulready: Choosing the wedding gown
William Mulready Ennis 1786 - London 1863
Choosing the wedding gown
Proceeds : 3.600 €
Oil/canvas, 60 x 50 cm, sign. up. ri. W. Mulready, rest., relined. - Most likely another version by this artist after the well known painting in the Victoria & Albert Museum. Inspired by Oliver Goldsmith's novel 'The Vicar of Wakefield' (1766) opening with the words: 'I had scarce taken orders a year before I began to think seriously of matrimony and chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but for such qualities as would waer well.' Mulready is known to have produced replicas after the original. Mus.: London (Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Gallery et.al.), Dublin, Edinburgh, Leeds, Paris (Louvre), Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Heleniak 'W.M.' (1980), Pointon 'W.M.' (exh.cat. 1986) et.al.