id:			159229
accession number:	1995.45
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Henry Francis Playter, c. 1837. Pieter Christoffel Wonder (Dutch, 1780–1852). Oil on wood panel; unframed: 19.6 x 15.9 cm (7 11/16 x 6 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1995.45

title:				Henry Francis Playter
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creation date:			c. 1837
creation date earliest:		1832
creation date latest:		1842
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Netherlands
technique:	oil on wood panel
department:	Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Pieter Christoffel Wonder (Dutch, 1780–1852)  - artist
After a modest artistic training in his native Utrecht and extensive studies on his own, Pieter Christoffel Wonder attended the Düsseldorf Academy from 1802 through 1804, supplementing his training, as usual, by copying Old Master paintings. In 1807, with Jan Kobell II (1778-1814), Wonder founded an artist's society in Utrecht called Kunstliefde (Love for Art). He remained its director until he left for London in May 1823. Lord and Lady John Murray, who had regularly visited him in Utrecht, convinced Wonder to move to the British capital in anticipation of many commissions. Until then, Wonder painted mainly portraits and genre scenes in a meticulous style carefully rendering various materials. When he finally settled in London in 1824, Wonder made many portraits of the nobility, often depicting them in conversation pieces in the manner of seventeenth-century Dutch painter Gerard ter Borch (1584-1662). Wonder's masterpiece, Sir John Murray's Art Gallery (1830, private collection, Great Britain; related oil sketches, National Portrait Gallery, London; drawing, Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam), depicts an imaginary art gallery and portrays some important contemporary British collectors. In 1831 Wonder returned to Utrecht and, according to his pupil and biographer Christiaan Kramm (1797-1875), left his Dutch painting style behind and continued to work in a somewhat antiquated manner.
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measurements: Unframed: 19.6 x 15.9 cm (7 11/16 x 6 1/4 in.)
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	inscription:	Signed in brown paint in upper right corner: P.C.W. f 

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Main European Rotation (Gallery 202), May 20, 2013 - November 12, 2013.', 'opening_date': '2013-05-20T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Descendants of the sitters. Cleveland sale, Wolf's, 20 May 1995 (lots 54-56), as nineteenth-century American School. Purchased at this auction by the CMA.
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RELATED WORKS

	id: 		159230
	Elisa Pearson Playter, c. 1837. Pieter Christoffel Wonder (Dutch, 1780-1852). Oil on wood panel; unframed: 20 x 15.6 cm (7 7/8 x 6 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1995.46
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CITATIONS

	Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. <em>Catalogue of Paintings</em>. <em>Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 646-648, Vol. II, no. 227
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