Reverend George Crabbe
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Summary
: K1052
: Fine Art
: painting
: Reverend George Crabbe
: SHARPLES, Rolinda
: an oil painting on panel, showing: a half-length portrait of Reverend George Crabbe (1754-1832), poet and chaplain; the diary of Ellen Sharples (mother of the artist), records that Crabbe sat for this portrait on 2 November 1827 (he was residing in Trowbridge at this time), and it was probably completed early the following year
Current Location
: between 1827-1828
: [Book] Quick, Richard. 1910. Catalogue of the Sharples Collection of Pastel Portraits and Oil Paintings. 1. 32.: [Book] Knox, Katharine M. 1930. The Sharples: their Portraits of George Washington and his Contemporaries. 1. 134.: Purchased, 1931