Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd

  • Oil on canvas
  • 25 × 29 ¼ inches · 635 × 749 mm
  • Painted c.1734

Collections

  • Edward Davies Davenport (1778-1847), Capesthorne Hall by 1842;
  • Lt. Colonel Walter Bromley-Davenport, M.P (1903-1989), by inheritance at Capesthorne Hall;
  • Bromley-Davenport sale, Christie's, London, British Pictures 1500 - 1850, June 16, 2005, Lot 210 (£26,400); 
  • W. Eugene Johnston III, Greensboro, North Carolina;
  • Leland Little Auctions, 11th June 2022, lot 232;
  • Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd.

Exhibitions

  • London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition: British Portraits, 1956-1957, no. 87; 
  • Manchester, Manchester City Art Gallery, Exhibition of Works of Art from Private Collections in the North West and North Wales, September 21 - October 30, 1960, no. 116

Literature

  • John Kerslake, ‘The Richardsons and Cult of Milton’, The Burlington Magazine, vol.99, no.646 (January 1957), pp.23-25, pl.27; 
  • John Rupert Martin, "The Milton Portrait: Some Addenda," The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Spring 1963), p. 170, fig. 3;
  • John Kerslake, Early Georgian Portraits, London, 1977, vol.I, p.231; 
  • David Piper, The Image of the Poet: British Poets and Their Portraits, 1982, fig.70; 
  • Carol Gibson-Wood, Jonathan Richardson, Art Theorist of the English Enlightenment, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 116, fig. 55

Private collection, UK