Portrait of the Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone (1809-1898)

Description In his advanced years, William Ewart Gladstone, the great British statesman who served four times as Prime Minister, frequently sat for portraits and for photographs, many of which are discussed by T. Wemyss Reid in "Mr. Gladstone and his Portraits," The Magazine of Art, London, September 23, 1890. Herbert shows him bust-length, turned slightly to the right, wearing a black frock coat and waistcoat, white shirt with raised collar and black knotted stock. He is seated in a red chair against a dark green ground. The artist's inscription notes that the picture was executed at the subject's residence, Hawarden Castle, near Chester.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
11/01/1944	Treatment	cleaned; loss compensation; coated
4/03/1956	Treatment	mounted; coated

Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1909 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Signature] Lower right: J. R. Herbert R. A.; [Inscription] Lower right: Sittings at Hawarden; [Number] On stretcher: no. 23486; [Number] On frame: no. 830

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, before 1909