Samuel Woodforde (1763-1817)

Artist Name Samuel Woodforde (1763-1817)
Title Portrait of a Country Girl
Description Samuel Woodforde, 18th century born artist painted this lovely Old Master portrait oil painting in 1809. The sitter is a pretty young Country Girl and this half length portrait pictures her with a blustery landscape background. She is dressed in a red cape and is gazing at the viewer with a half smile, resting her chin on her hand. A charming portrait with lovely colouring and facial details and an excellent example of Woodforde's work. 

Signed and dated 1809 lower left. 
Provenance Royal Academy 1811, No 431 entitled Country Girl.
Auction stencil verso. 
Medium Oil on Canvas
Size 25 x 30 inches
Frame Housed in an ornate gilt frame, 37 inches by 32 inches and in good condition.
Condition Good condition.
Biography Samuel Woodforde RA (29 March 1763 – 27 July 1817) was an 18th-century English painter. Woodforde was born at Castle Cary, Somerset. He was the second son of Heighes Woodforde, an accountant of Ansford, and his wife Anne. He was a lineal descendant of the painter Samuel Woodford, and nephew of the diarist, James Woodforde. He was supported by the banker Henry Hoare of Stourhead, Wiltshire and his family. On 8 March 1782, he became a student at the Royal Academy Schools and started exhibiting pictures in 1784. He contributed no less than 133 pictures to the Royal Academy and 39 at the British Institution. Richard Hoare granted Woodforde £100 a year, which allowed him to travel to Italy in 1786. He spent most of his time in Rome, studying the works of Raphael, Michelangelo, and Paolo Veronese. He also visited Venice and Florence before returning to London in 1791. Between 1792 and 1815 he exhibited constantly, showing portraits, scenes of Italian life, historical pictures, and subjects from literature. Many of his literary pictures were engraved, such as a scene from Titus Andronicus by Anker Smith for the Boydell Shakespeare edition 1805 and several other scenes for Longmans Shakespeare1805-7. Woodforde became an associate of the Royal Academy in 1800 and a full member in 1807. On 7 October 1815 he married Jane Gardner; that year the couple left for Italy. Two years later, Woodforde died of fever at Bologna where he is buried in the cemetery of La Certosa.
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