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William Hoare of Bath, R.A., Eye 1706-1799 Bath
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- William Hoare of Bath, R.A.
- Portrait of George Burges
- signed and indistinctly dated; inscribed on the reverse of the frame:For Mr Deare...in King's mead/Street Bath
- oil on canvas
- 78.5x64cm.; 31x25 1/4 in.
half length, seated, wearing a green coat and holding a walking stick in his left hand
Provenance
By descent to the sitter's grandson, Sir Charles Lamb, Bt. (1785-1864)
Catalogue Note
The sitter was a captain in General Humphrey Bland's Dragoons and was with him in Gibraltar during his period as governor in 1749-52. He later became Comptroller-General of Customs. He married Anne Whichnow, daughter of James 13th Lord Somerville, and died in Bath on 16th March 1786. His son James succeeded to the estates of his friend John Lamb at Beauport, near Battle in Sussex, in 1721 and changed his name.
John Deare, whose name is inscribed on the stretcher, was a carver, gilder and framemaker who is recorded as living in Kingsmead Street from 1766. He was also employed by Gainsborough (see Susan Slowman, Gainsborough in Bath, 2002, p.68).