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Mather Brown
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- Mather Brown
- Portrait of William Leyborne Popham, R.N. (died 1790), when aged seventeen, in naval uniform
- oil on canvas
Provenance
By descent from the sitter within the Leyborne Popham family, Littlecote, Hungerford, Wiltshire until 1922;
Whence acquired along with the Littlecote estate by Sir Ernest Salter Wills, 3rd Baronet (1869-1958), Littlecote, Hungerford, Wiltshire;
His descendants' house sale, Littlecote, Sotheby's, 21 November 1985, lot 871, where purchased by the present owners.
Whence acquired along with the Littlecote estate by Sir Ernest Salter Wills, 3rd Baronet (1869-1958), Littlecote, Hungerford, Wiltshire;
His descendants' house sale, Littlecote, Sotheby's, 21 November 1985, lot 871, where purchased by the present owners.