£500 - £700
HENRY EDRIDGE, ARA (1768-1821). PORTRAIT OF THE REVD. RICHARD RAIKES (c.1743-1823). Full length, seated at a table, dressed in clerical grey coat and breeches, a book open upon his lap, a hat and books to his left, signed with initials and dated 1814, watercolour and pencil, principally en grisaille but the face tinted with flesh tones 34.5 x 25cm. Lithograph: By Charles Joseph Hullmandel after Casimir Carbonnier (see NPG D39180) * The sitter was a clergyman in Gloucestershire, the brother of Robert Raikes who was a prominent promoter of Sunday schools. He is commemorated within Gloucester Cathedral.
Needs a light clean; mounted on support sheet with wash lines.
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