Portrait of Sergeant Richard Leigh (d.1772), small full-length, seated at a table, in a grey coat, a gold waistcoat, and black breeches, his right arm resting on an open book, in an interior
Details
Circle of Edward Haytley (fl.1740-1761)
Portrait of Sergeant Richard Leigh (d.1772), small full-length, seated at a table, in a grey coat, a gold waistcoat, and black breeches, his right arm resting on an open book, in an interior
oil on canvas
30 x 22 in. (76.5 x 56.2 cm.)
Portrait of Sergeant Richard Leigh (d.1772), small full-length, seated at a table, in a grey coat, a gold waistcoat, and black breeches, his right arm resting on an open book, in an interior
oil on canvas
30 x 22 in. (76.5 x 56.2 cm.)
Provenance
By descent in the Leigh family at Hawley House, Sutton-at-Hone, Kent. Anonymous sale, in these Rooms, 15 November 1991, lot 178.
Literature
D. Hall, 'Diane the Huntress', The World of Interiors, October, 1992, p. 163.