Old Master & British Works on Paper
Old Master & British Works on Paper
Property from the Collection of the late Cyril and Shirley Fry
John Hamilton Mortimer, A.R.A.
Captive Family
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July 8, 01:33 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of the late Cyril and Shirley Fry
John Hamilton Mortimer, A.R.A.
Eastbourne 1740 - 1779 London
Captive Family
Pen and black ink on laid paper
277 by 205 mm
Sir George Beaumont, 7th Bt (1753-1827)
John Hamilton Mortimer, A.R.A (1740-1779), exh. cat., Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery, and Kenwood, Iveagh Bequest, 1968, under no. 72;
J. Sunderland, 'John Hamilton Mortimer. His life and works', Walpole Society, vol. LII, 1986, p. 203, no. 177, fig. 304;
N. MacGregor, 'Noble and patriotic’: The Beaumont gift, 1828, exh. cat., London, National Gallery, 1986, pp. 19-20, fig. 8
J. Sunderland, 'John Hamilton Mortimer. His life and works', Walpole Society, vol. LII, 1986, p. 203, no. 177, fig. 304;
N. MacGregor, 'Noble and patriotic’: The Beaumont gift, 1828, exh. cat., London, National Gallery, 1986, pp. 19-20, fig. 8
Engraved:
by Robert Blyth, circa 1783
London, National Gallery, 'Noble and Patriotic': The Beaumont Gift, 1828, 1986, no. L242
This drawing dates to the 1770s and belongs to a group that focus on banditti and soliders.1
The work belonged to Sir George Beaumont, 7th Bt, a leading figure in the artistic and literary worlds of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
1. Sunderland, op.cit., pp. 201-203, nos, 169-177