Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley (1842-1904) politican

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Hubert von Herkomer was born in Waal, Bavaria. In 1857, his family settled in Southampton, England. He later studied at the Department of Science and Art, South Kensington, where he took up illustration. In 1875, he exhibited ‘The Last Muster: Sunday in the Royal Hospital, Chelsea’ at the Royal Academy, to great acclaim. From 1873, he lived with his parents in the village of Bushey, Hertfordshire, later commissioning American architect Henry Hobson Richardson to design ‘Lululaund’, a castle-like residence in Bushey. Herkomer also founded an Art School in Bushey and succeeded Ruskin as Slade Professor of Art at Oxford University from 1885. In 1907, he was knighted. He died at the age of 64 during a trip to Devon.
Henry Scott Bridgewater was a mezzotint engraver of portraits and sentimental subjects. His engravings were made after 18th- and early 19th-century works by British artists, as well as works by contemporary artists.

People

Matthew White, 1st Viscount Ridley Ridley (1842 - 1904)

Places

Subjects

male portrait, sideburns, 19th century costume, waistcoat, trousers, tie, lamp, Viscount, Home Secretary, Member of Parliament, chair, table (as Subject)

Materials & Techniques

engraving

Artist

Sir Hubert von Herkomer (1849 - 1914)
Henry Scott Bridgewater (1864 - 1946)

Title

Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley (1842-1904) politican

Date

1 September 1892

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

height: 54.50 cm, width: 43.00 cm

Acquisition

Origin uncertain; acquired before 1981

Inscription

below image: [right] M.R Ridley

GAC number

15131