Edwin Landseer, English, 1802-1873
Title: Members of the Sheridan Family
Date: 1847
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
107 x 166 cm
Credit Line: Purchased, 1874
Object Number: NGI.139
DescriptionThis portrait depicts Charles Kinnaird Sheridan, his sister-in-law Marcia Maria Sheridan and her infant son. Sheridan was the grandson of the Irish playwright, Richard Brinsley Sheridan. A member of the Diplomatic service, he died from tuberculosis in the British Embassy in Paris in 1847, aged thirty.

In this portrait Sheridan sits in an invalid’s chair wearing a robe and slippers. The painting is sketchy in execution and melancholy in mood. Landseer did not manage to complete it by the time Sheridan died.
ProvenancePurchased, Chritsie's, London, 1874, Artist's sale, lot 122
Exhibition HistoryLondon, 1874

Sir Edwin Landseer, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 24 October 1981 - 2 January 1982; The Tate Gallery, London, 9 February 1982 - 11 April 1982

Lines of Vision. Irish Writers at the National Gallery of Ireland, 8 October 2014 —12 April 2015
Label TextThis portrait depicts Charles Kinnaird Sheridan, his sister-in-law Marcia Maria Sheridan and her infant son. Sheridan was the grandson of the Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. A member of the Diplomatic Service, he died from tuberculosis in the British Embassy in Paris, aged thirty. Landseer depicted him convalescing in an invalid’s chair, wearing a robe and slippers. The painting is sketchy in execution and melancholy in mood. The artist did not manage to complete it before Sheridan died.

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