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Portrait of General James Wolfe [object]

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Item

Date:

ca. 1800-1830.

Reference:

R12395-0-9-E, Volume number: 1

Type of material:

Objects (including medals and pins)

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3793977

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Portrait of General James Wolfe
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

ca. 1800-1830.

Place of creation:

United Kingdom

Extent:

1 sculpture : wax relief miniature ; 19.5 x 15.5 cm in frame.
Frame 19.500 x 15.500 cm
Image 13.000 x 9.000 cm

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Item is a wax relief miniature sculpture representing a particular portrait type for General James Wolfe. This posthumous portrait type, based within a popular eighteenth-century medium that had gained a reputation for accessible realism, may have been marketed in order to satisfy a public demand for portraits of signficant citizens, during the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries.

Provenance:

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Private collection
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Artist: Unknown

Associated name: Wolfe, James, 1727-1759

Attributed name: Wright, Patience Lovell, 1725-1786

Attributed name: Lochee, John Charles, 1745-1820
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Attributions and conjectures:

Sculpture has been attributed to Patience Lovell Wright (not proven and very unlikely), The Royal Ontario Museum version of this representation has been attributed to Isaac Gosset and to John Charles Lochee (not proven and unlikely). See Behold the Hero : General Wolfe & the arts in the eighteenth century by Alan McNairn (1997; p.192), A photograph of a version of this representation was published in Portrait Waxes, by D.R. Reilly (1953; p. 141). Reilly ascribes the wax to John Charles Lochee (not proven and unlikely)

Custodial history:

Sculpture was purchased from the book dealer Harold L. Medjuck in 2008. The sculpture was, in turn, acquired by Medjuck through an e-bay auction based in the United Kingdom.

Copy/version note:

Similar sculptures/versions of this representation exist in the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum and at Quebec House (UK).

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed, verso (handwritten; ink): Gen. Wolf. / By The American Modeller / Mrs. Pattence Wright, / 18th Cent. (underlined)

Subject heading:

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Portraits

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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2007-00703-7
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[Consultation90 Open]
To be viewed with the assistance of the Portrait Gallery of Canada

Volume [R12395] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit line: Library and Archives Canada, archival reference number R12398-1, e010689808
Copyright: Expired
Restrictions on use: None

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Date modified:: 2024-04-09