William Perkin

Made:: 1906-1910 in England

artist:: Unattributed

maker:: Arthur Stockdale Cope

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Painting. [Sir William Henry Perkin] / nd. [1906-]. Oil on canvas; 112.5x89.5cm in black wood edge display frame 114x91x3cm. - After the larger oil of 1906 by Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope (1857-1940), exhibited 1907 Royal Academy [cat.103], now in the National Portrait Gallery London. - Portrait of Sir William Henry Perkin (1838-1907), chemist, inventor of synthetic dyes, founder of coal tar colour industry; TQL, looking front, holding skein of mauveine [aniline mauve dye discovered 1856, English Patent no. 1984]; on table to r, glass chemical apparatus and dark red powders. [Thus, portrait painted first upon occasion of jubilee, 50th anniversary of discovery, for which Perkin also knighted in 1906]

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Category:: Art

Object Number:: 1986-627

Materials:: oil paint on canvas and wood (unidentified)

Measurements:: overall: 1140 mm x 900 mm x 30 mm,
frame: 1140 mm x 910 mm x 30 mm,
image: 1125 mm x 895 mm

type:: oil painting and portrait

credit:: ICI Ltd (Organics Division)

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William Perkin

Measurements:: overall: 1140 mm x 910 mm x 30 mm,

Materials:: oil paint on canvas and wood (unidentified)

Object Number:: 1986-627/1

type:: oil painting and portrait

Frame for Portrait of William Perkin

Original historic frame for painting of Sir William Henry Perkin.

Wooden frame with gesso and compo decorations of modelled plaster, water gilded and burnished with size over the gilding. The frame is decorated with arabesque, floral ornaments: and acanthus leaf corners. The compo ornament, which covers the surface, is symmetrical in the middle part of the frame only. The flowers and leaves are individually applied on the edges and the bottom parts of the ogee.