Lot 194
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Joseph Wright of Derby, A.R.A.

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • Joseph Wright of Derby, A.R.A.
  • A portrait of John Hope (d. 1819)
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

L.B. Sanderson Esq.;
Thence by descent.

Literature

B. Nicholson, 'Wright of Derby: addenda and corrigenda', Burlington Magazine, vol. 130, no. 1027, October 1988, p. 748, fig. 25.

Catalogue Note

Nicholson – shown in about 1780 at about the age of 50. He died a bachelor aged 89 in 1819, having been four times Mayor of Derby.