Joseph Wright of Derby, A.R.A. (1734-1797)

Portrait of Dorothy Hodges (1752-1800), half-length, in a yellow dress, with pearls and a ribbon in her hair, feigned oval

細節

Joseph Wright of Derby, A.R.A. (1734-1797)
Portrait of Dorothy Hodges (1752-1800), half-length, in a yellow dress, with pearls and a ribbon in her hair, feigned oval
oil on canvas
30¼ x 25¼in. (76.6 x 64.1cm)

來源

by descent, through the sitter's eldest son Thomas, to Rose Hodges who married Henry Peareth in 1876.
Humphrey Roberts, by 1900.
H. Roberts (+); Christie's, 22 May 1908, lot 194, as Sir T. Gainsborough, R.A. (1000gns. to Agnews on behalf of Temple).
John Howard Temple (d. 1922), Roberts' son-in-law, and by descent.

拍品專文

The sitter was born Dorothy Cartwright in Marnham, Nottinghamshire in 1752. She married Thomas Hallett Hodges in 1775 and in the early years of their marriage lived at Serlby Hall, Nottinghamshire. By 1784 they had moved to Hempstead Place (now Benenden School) in Kent. She died in 1800 and is buried, along with her husband who died the following year, in the family vault at Benenden Parish Church.