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Lot Essay
Little is known of Lutterell's life, though his working career is thought to have been spent in Westminster. He was born in Dublin and was a pupil of Edmund Ashfield (fl. 1669-1690). Most of his oeuvre consists of pastel copies, often on copper, of the works of Rembrandt, the present works are larger than usual and have a high level of finish. For other examples of his work see E. Croft-Murray and P. Hulton, The British Museum Catalogue of British Drawings, XVI and XVII Centuries, London, 1960, pp. 436-38.
The labels on the back of the pictures presumably refer to Benjamin Bright (1823–1900), the great-grandson of Henry Bright Senior (1715–1777) of Ham Green House. Henry Bright was a Bristol merchant and slave-trader, active in Jamaica during the 1740s. He built a successful trade in sugar, provisions and dry goods and, after a period spent in the Caribbean (1748–1751), became active in the trade of enslaved people, going on to become the managing agent of twenty-one journeys transporting enslaved individuals between 1749 and 1766. Henry's son Richard Bright (1754–1840) inherited, aged twenty-three, substantial properties in Wales, Hampshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire. In addition to plantations in Jamaica, he inherited 640 enslaved people from his father. His substantial personal wealth included Ham Green House, which Richard’s mother had inherited from her father. Richard's property and estates passed to his eldest son Henry (1784–1869), who resisted moves towards emancipation and, when the Abolition of Slavery Act was passed in 1833, was compensated by the British government. Henry did not marry and, when he died in 1869, his property was divided between his nephews, including Benjamin Bright. Ham Green House eventually passed to a neighbouring family, and presumably it was at this time that the present pair of pastels were packed up from the house (as per the inscriptions on the reverse of both backboards).
For further information on the Henry and Richard Bright see their online biographies, UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery and Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB).
The labels on the back of the pictures presumably refer to Benjamin Bright (1823–1900), the great-grandson of Henry Bright Senior (1715–1777) of Ham Green House. Henry Bright was a Bristol merchant and slave-trader, active in Jamaica during the 1740s. He built a successful trade in sugar, provisions and dry goods and, after a period spent in the Caribbean (1748–1751), became active in the trade of enslaved people, going on to become the managing agent of twenty-one journeys transporting enslaved individuals between 1749 and 1766. Henry's son Richard Bright (1754–1840) inherited, aged twenty-three, substantial properties in Wales, Hampshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire. In addition to plantations in Jamaica, he inherited 640 enslaved people from his father. His substantial personal wealth included Ham Green House, which Richard’s mother had inherited from her father. Richard's property and estates passed to his eldest son Henry (1784–1869), who resisted moves towards emancipation and, when the Abolition of Slavery Act was passed in 1833, was compensated by the British government. Henry did not marry and, when he died in 1869, his property was divided between his nephews, including Benjamin Bright. Ham Green House eventually passed to a neighbouring family, and presumably it was at this time that the present pair of pastels were packed up from the house (as per the inscriptions on the reverse of both backboards).
For further information on the Henry and Richard Bright see their online biographies, UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery and Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB).