Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd

  • Oil on canvas
  • 30 ¼ × 25 ¼ inches · 770 × 642 mm
  • In its original neo-classical frame[1]
    Painted c. 1780

Collections

  • Painted to be raffled for the sitter’s benefit: listed in the artist's Account Book as 'Old John at the King's Head Raffled for & paid 12.12';
  • According to Bemrose, raffled at Derby Town Hall;[2]
  • Daniel Parker Coke, MP (1745-1825) acquired at the above raffle;
  • Joseph Strutt (1765-1844), Derby, by 1835;
  • Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper (1801-1880), Kingston Hall, Northamptonshire by descent;
  • The Hon. Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper (1840- 1914), Kingston Hall, Northamptonshire;
  • Algernon Strutt, 3rd Baron Belper (1883-1956), Kingston Hall, Northamptonshire;
  • The Hon. Peter Algernon Strutt (1924-2007), Kingston Hall, Northamptonshire;
  • Strutt sale, Sotheby's, London, 19 November 1986, lot 54;
  • Zankel-West collection, New York

Exhibitions

  • Derby, Derby Art Gallery, Midland Counties Exhibition, May 1870, no. 800;
  • Derby, Derby Corporation Art Gallery, Paintings by Joseph Wright...with some Original Drawings and a complete Collection of Prints, 1883, no. 106;
  • Derby, Derby Corporation Art Gallery, Bi- Centenary Exhibition of the Works of Wright of Derby, 1934, no. 91;
  • London, Tate Gallery; Paris, Grand Palais; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wright of Derby, 1990, no.140.

Literature

  • J. Strutt, A Catalogue of the Paintings and Drawings...in the collection of Joseph Strutt, Derby, 1835, no. 66;
  • William Bemrose, The Life and Works of Joseph Wright A.R.A., London, 1885, pp. 10 and 120;
  • Benedict Nicholson, Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light, London, 1968, I, p. 233, no. 182; 
  • Ed. Judy Egerton, Wright of Derby, exh. cat., London (Tate Gallery), 1990, p. 215, no. 140;
  • Elizabeth Barker, ‘Documents relating to Joseph Wright 'of Derby' (1734-97)’, Walpole Society, LXXI, 2009, pp. 15, 53 and 195;
  • Eds. Giles Waterhouse and Anne French, Below Stairs, 400 years of servants' portraits, London, 2004, pp. 50 and 78. 

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