File:Emma Soyer - Portrait of William Timms the Waterman aged 95.jpg

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Emma Soyer, "Portrait of William Timms, the Waterman, aged 95", 1838

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Emma Soyer: Portrait of William Timms, the Waterman, aged 95  wikidata:Q124733743 reasonator:Q124733743
Artist
Emma Soyer  (1813–1842)  wikidata:Q5362724
 
Emma Soyer
Description British painter
Date of birth/death 1813 Edit this at Wikidata 30 August 1842 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London
Work period 1833 Edit this at Wikidata–1842 Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q5362724
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Title
Portrait of William Timms, the Waterman, aged 95
label QS:Len,"Portrait of William Timms, the Waterman, aged 95"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Portrait of William Timms, the Waterman, aged 95.

Half length, full face, in red dress, holding a badge of the thistle, rose and shamrock. Black cap.

William Timms, Her Majesty's Waterman of Isleworth, Middlesex

Label at the bottom of the from : "William Timms - Aged 95 / Waterman to George III, George IV, William IV & Queen Victoria / and to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Dukes of Northumberland. / By Madame Soyer"


"At the coronation of Queen Victoria the oldest Queen's waterman was William Timms, a native of Isleworth, who had before walked in procession at the coronations of George the Third, George the Fourth, and William the Fourth. He is still living near the Mill Bridge, and is employed as crier at the courts held by the Duke of Northumberland and the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The Duke of Northumberland has an excellent likeness of this venerable old waterman at Syon, where he has been employed all his life." (George James Aungier, The History and Antiquities of Syon Monastery: The Parish of Isleworth, and the Chapelry of Hounslow, J.B. Nichols and son, 1840, p. 228)
Date 1838
date QS:P571,+1838-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Object history Collection of the Duke of Northumberland, Syon House, London, United Kingdom
Source/Photographer Photograph taken at Syon House

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