Portrait of the Artist's Mother
Sir Edwin Landseer
- Art Funded
- 2004
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 22.9 cm
- Presented by
- National Loan Collection Trust through The Art Fund
Landseer's mother, Jane Potts (1774-1840) married John Landseer in 1793.
She had 14 children of whom only 7 survived, three boys and four girls. Mrs Landseer was already 28 when Edwin was born but is depicted in this drawing as a young woman while the costume and hairstyle would suggest a date of 1815-1825. It may be that the sitter has been wrongly identified.
Provenance
Sidney Claridge Turner; National Loan Collection Trust.