
Self-portrait
Auction Closed
December 4, 01:51 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
John Hoppner, R.A.
London 1758–1810
Self-portrait
oil on canvas
unframed: 25.6 x 23.2 cm.; 10⅛ x 9⅛ in.
framed: 38.1 x 35.4 cm.; 15 x 14 in.
Anonymous sale, Chevy Chase, Sloans & Kenyon, 17 July 2025, lot 273 (as Continental School, 19th century).
This rediscovered self-portrait relates to a canvas of larger dimensions in the National Portrait Gallery, London, which depicts Hoppner from another angle.1 Across both pictures, the artist dons the same crimson velvet jacket.
1 Inv. no. NPG 5950; oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm.; https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw07504/John-Hoppner.
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