- Museum number
- 2010.2.13
- Object
- Framed oil painting: Thomas Collins as Slender in ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ by William Shakespeare, Samuel De Wilde (1748-1832), oil on canvas 1802-03
- Materials
- Oil
- On display?
- Yes
Further description
- Simple name
- Painting
- Subject
- Theatre
- Dimensions
- framed: 89.2000cm (h) x 76.5cm (w)
regular: 58.1cm (h) x 72.4000cm (w)
Thomas Collins as Slender in ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’
Samuel De Wilde (1748-1832)
Oil on canvas, 1802-03
Signed S De Wilde
Samuel De Wilde specialised in portraits of actors in role, often commissioned as illustrations by publishers of plays. From his studio in Covent Garden, De Wilde kept up a constant production line as actors came to pose for him.
The young comic actor Thomas Collins (1775-1806) trained as a musician in Bath, but followed his father into the theatre. He wears a brightly-coloured, fanciful evocation of the dress of Shakespeare’s day, based on early seventeenth-century paintings.
2010.2.28
The Somerset Maugham Collection, transferred from the National Theatre
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