John Hoppner* R.A. (1758-1810)

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF CURTIS E. CALDER

Details

John Hoppner* R.A. (1758-1810)

Portrait of the Hon. Mary Rycroft, half length, wearing a white Dress and Turban, in a Landscape

oil on canvas
30 x 25in. (76.2 x 63.5cm.)

Provenance

By descent from the sitter to the Earls of Chichester.
George Harland Peck; his sale, Christie's, London, June 25, 1920, lot 81 (1,300 gns. to Gooden and Fox).
Viscount Leverhulme; sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, Feb. 17-19, 1926, lot 147.
Governor Alvan T. Fuller, Massachusetts.
Anon. Sale, Christie's, London, Nov. 22, 1963, lot 56 (unsold).
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, London, March 2, 1983 lot 46.

Literature

W. Mckay and W. Roberts, John Hoppner, R.A., 1909, p. 223.
A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813-1914, II, 1913, p. 559.
A. F. Cochrane, English Paintings in the Fuller Collection, International Studio, LXXXIX, March 1928, p. 61 (illustrated) and p. 92.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1908, no. 186 (lent by George Harland Peck).

Lot Essay

The sitter was the daughter of Sir Richard Nelson Rycroft, Bt., and his wife Penelope Stonehewer. On December 14, 1792, she married the Honourable George Pelham, third son of Thomas Pelham, 1st Earl of Chichester, who later became Bishop of Lincoln. She died without issue on 30 March, 1837.