Trewithen Sir Edmund Prideaux, 5th Baronet of Netherton attributed to William Aikman, c.1729 Toggle Zoom in Zoom out caption attributed to William Aikman, Sir Edmund Prideaux, 5th Baronet of Netherton Photo courtesy of Dave Penman (All rights reserved) Share-icon Downloads Zoom in Details Country House Trewithen Title(s) Sir Edmund Prideaux, 5th Baronet of Netherton Date c.1729 Medium and support Oil on canvas Dimensions Overall height: 124 cm, Overall width: 99 cm Artist attributed to William Aikman (1682-1731) Catalogue Number TN67 Description Sir Edmund Prideaux, 5th Baronet of Netherton (1675–1728) was married to Anne Hawkins (1687–1741), daughter of Philip Hawkins (? 1700–1738). For the tomb monument of Sir Edmund and his wife in Wesminster Abbey, erected by his daughter, Anne Prideaux, see TN25. The present portrait has been attributed to William Aikman, a Scottish portrait painter who went on a Grand Tour and trained in Italy before settling in London in 1722. There he made literary friends such as Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift and found instant success as a portrait painter, no doubt helped by the death in 1723 of Sir Godfrey Kneller, the leading portrait painter of the preceding few decades. The pose of this portrait is similar to Aikman’s portrait of Sir William Harbord (fig. 1) and dates presumably to about the same time. It appears to be the portrait located on the Middle Staircase in the inventory of March 1928, and described as ‘Three-quarter length portrait of a gentleman, early Georgian period, full wig, blue full-length coat with gold braid edgings, about 60in by 32in, carved frame’. Figure 1. William Aikman, Sir William Harbord MP KB, 1729. Oil on canvas, 238 × 146.5 cm. National Trust, Blickling Hall, Norfolk (355486). Digital image courtesy of National Trust, Blickling Hall, Norfolk. (All rights reserved) by Emily Burns Related catalogue items from Trewithen Trewithen ? Phillip Hawkins I and Mary Scobell attributed to William Gandy, ? c.1715 Trewithen The Market Girl attributed to Henry Robert Morland, ? c.1770s Trewithen British Shipping follower of Willem van der Velde the Younger
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