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拍品專文
Although the inscription on the label on the reverse of the frame is very faint the following is legible 'William Markham, The Archbishop of York, this engraving was the gift of H.R.H. Prince Regent to Frederica Countess of Mansfield, daughter of the above from a picture painted by Hoppner Carlton House... inscribed on by Lady Mansfield'.
The original painting, from which this engraving was taken is in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle. A copy of the original painting can be seen at Kenwood House, London in a Country Life photograph, circa 1913. The picture is seen hanging above the fireplace in the Upper Hall (Julius Bryant, Kenwood, p.39).
James Heath exhibited the engraving at the Royal Academy in 1830. The Review of Publications of Art in 1808, page 107 states 'We hear that Hoppner's very fine portrait of Dr. Markham, the late revered Archbishop of York, is now in the hands of Mr. Heath, from which, when he has finished the engraving, only fifteen impressions are to be struck off and the plate is then to be destroyed', John Hoppner, R.A., with supplemental index, W. McKay & W. Roberts.
The carver, gilder and frame maker Edward Wyatt (d.1833), established his Oxford Street premises next to the celebrated Pantheon built by his cousin James Wyatt, whose role as Surveyor General enabled Edward to receive a court appointment in the Office of Works in the late 1790s. The frame’s trophies, comprising the Imperial crown together with the Bishop’s confirmation ritual book, mitre, crozier and chalice, display Wyatt’s talents as a designer of sculpture. In 1804 he had designed emblematical stuccoed trophies for the Carlton House mansion of George Prince of Wales, later George IV; and this frame’s poetic wreath of beribboned myrtles in the Louis Seize Grecian fashion likewise reflects his French taste. The former stuccoed trophies are likely to have been executed by Francis Bernasconi, who was employed by the Wyatt dynasty at this period (John Martin Robinson, The Wyatts, Oxford, 1979, fig. 92).
The original painting, from which this engraving was taken is in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle. A copy of the original painting can be seen at Kenwood House, London in a Country Life photograph, circa 1913. The picture is seen hanging above the fireplace in the Upper Hall (Julius Bryant, Kenwood, p.39).
James Heath exhibited the engraving at the Royal Academy in 1830. The Review of Publications of Art in 1808, page 107 states 'We hear that Hoppner's very fine portrait of Dr. Markham, the late revered Archbishop of York, is now in the hands of Mr. Heath, from which, when he has finished the engraving, only fifteen impressions are to be struck off and the plate is then to be destroyed', John Hoppner, R.A., with supplemental index, W. McKay & W. Roberts.
The carver, gilder and frame maker Edward Wyatt (d.1833), established his Oxford Street premises next to the celebrated Pantheon built by his cousin James Wyatt, whose role as Surveyor General enabled Edward to receive a court appointment in the Office of Works in the late 1790s. The frame’s trophies, comprising the Imperial crown together with the Bishop’s confirmation ritual book, mitre, crozier and chalice, display Wyatt’s talents as a designer of sculpture. In 1804 he had designed emblematical stuccoed trophies for the Carlton House mansion of George Prince of Wales, later George IV; and this frame’s poetic wreath of beribboned myrtles in the Louis Seize Grecian fashion likewise reflects his French taste. The former stuccoed trophies are likely to have been executed by Francis Bernasconi, who was employed by the Wyatt dynasty at this period (John Martin Robinson, The Wyatts, Oxford, 1979, fig. 92).