Sujet
Lady Tennyson by G. F. Watts, R.A., 1885. Creator: Henry Herschel Hay Cameron.
Légende
Lady Tennyson by G. F. Watts, R.A., 1885. Emily Tennyson was forty-nine when George Frederic Watts painted this portrait in 1862. She had married Tennyson in 1850. Alfred's courtship of her took place over a long period and was often from a distance. It was only when his reputation was growing and when his finances had improved that they finally married. Coventry Patmore was to describe Emily as 'very charming', and being 'highly cultivated, but her mind seems always deeper than her cultivation, and her heart always deeper than her mind...' Once established with her husband and her two sons at Farringford, Emily was to take care of correspondence, instruct staff and arrange invitations to the many guests who came to stay. Though she considered herself to have looked at the world through "such a very small chink all my life" she understood Tennyson was stimulated by company. After Alfred's death in 1892, Emily helped compile a memoir with her son Hallam. Watts' portrait is in the collection of the Usher Gallery, Lincoln. From "Alfred, Lord Tennyson and His Friends A Series of 25 Portraits and Frontispiece in Photogravure From The Negatives Of Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron And H.H.H. Cameron Reminiscences By Anne Thackeray Ritchie With Introduction by H.H. Hay Cameron" [London: 1893]
Date
1885
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Royal Academy of Arts
Notre référence
HRM26A44_405
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
53.2Mo (8.6Mo) / 31.8cm x 42.0cm / 3752 x 4960 (300dpi)