Lot 255
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After Sir Henry Raeburn
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After Sir Henry Raeburn

Portrait of Sir Brooke Boothby Bt., bust-length, in a brown coat

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After Sir Henry Raeburn
Portrait of Sir Brooke Boothby Bt., bust-length, in a brown coat
oil on canvas
29 x 25in. (73.8 x 63.4cm.)
After the picture in Melville Castle, Scotland.
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Lot Essay

Brooke Boothby (1743-1824) was a Derbyshire landowner and poet. He published the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and was part of a circle of intellectuals in the Midlands including Thomas Day who followed the ideals of Sensibility. He is most famously immortalised in a portrait by Joseph Wright of Derby (Tate Gallery, London).

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