Lot 301
  • 301

Attributed to Joseph Clover 1779-1853

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Joseph Clover
  • Portrait of Henry Middleton (1755-1811)
  • Oil on canvas

  • 129.5 by 98 cm.; 51 by 38½ in.
Three quarter length, seated, wearing a fur edged loose red robe, holding a plan of a house

Literature

Edmund Farrer, Portraits in Suffolk Houses West, 1918, p.244, listed as no.16 at Livermere Park 

Catalogue Note

According to Farrer, the sitter is Henry Middleton, son of William Middleton of Crowfield and his wife Sarah, daughter of Morton Wilkinson of South Carolina.  In 1801 he won £20,000 in the state lottery, and helped his elder brother William (see lot 287) with the costs of building Shrubland Park.