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Description: | Oil on canvas. Two women look towards a painting of an angel in the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace. Behind them, a man reads from a prayer book or bible. The group may represent Queen Victoria, her lady-in-waiting and Prince Albert. Beyond the group the impressive, golden hammerbeam roof of the Chapel is illuminated.
This work is by the artist James Digman Wingfield. The considerable number of works that Wingfield painted of Hampton Court, at different times in his career, suggests something of an obsession with the palace. He made at least ten other paintings of locations within the buildings or grounds. These include 'The Fountain at Hampton Court', now in the collection of Bankfield Museum, Halifax, and 'A Summer Afternoon at Hampton Court' (1844), now in the Royal Collection. Wingfield also painted three versions of 'The Cartoon Gallery at Hampton Court in Olden Times', all sold through Sotheby’s, London, in 2003. | Subjects: | genre reading shawl 19th century costume chapel palace interior fan curtain chair organ religious/ecclesiastical interior ceiling dress woman bonnet column book footstool pillar putto archway palace coat man | Temporal: | 1849 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | James Digman Wingfield | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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