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Coventry Kersey Deighton Patmore

Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London

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Poet and writer; chiefly remembered now for his poems in praise of married love, The Angel in the House. He became a Roman Catholic in 1864 and in his later years, an impressive figure in both character and appearance, wrote a number of observations and meditations on religious subjects.
Patmore was urged to sit for Sargent in the summer of 1894 by his friend, and fellow author, Edmund Gosse. The finished picture was rapturously praised at the 1895 Royal Academy, being described by the Magazine of Art as the most electrifying portrait in the exhibition. Gosse himself said of the portrait that a hand of consummate power has fixed for ever upon the canvas the apocalyptical old age of Coventry Patmore.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Coventry Kersey Deighton Patmore

Date

1894

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 91.4 x W 61 cm

Accession number

1079

Acquisition method

Given by the sitter's widow, Mrs Harriet G. Patmore, 1897

Work type

Painting

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