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A CREAM WAX PORTRAIT RELIEF OF JAMES JOHNSON, BISHOP OF WORCESTER
Lot 273

A CREAM WAX PORTRAIT RELIEF OF JAMES JOHNSON, BISHOP OF WORCESTER

POSSIBLY BY PATIENCE WRIGHT, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A CREAM WAX PORTRAIT RELIEF OF JAMES JOHNSON, BISHOP OF WORCESTER
POSSIBLY BY PATIENCE WRIGHT, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
In profile to the left on a black glass ground, in a turned wood and gilt frame, with oval paper label inscribed Doctor Johnson, Bishop of Worcester, given to Miss Sheldon, afterwards Mrs Durham, This belongs to Rev.E.Green
The wax - 3½in. (8.9cm.) high
And a tinted wax portrait of judge, early 19th century, in a turned wood oval frame -- the wax - 3in. (7.6cm) high (2)

Specialist note

Patience Lovell Wright was born in Bordentown, New Jersey in 1725 into a prosperous Quaker family. In 1769 she was left a widow with five children and turned to sculpture as a means of supporting her family. She earned a reputation for modelling in wax and in 1772 moved to England where she established a museum for displaying likenesses of current luminaries and was also patronized by George III. She died in London in 1786.