Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd

  • Oil on canvas
  • 50 × 40 inches · 1270 × 1016 mm
  • Painted 1776

    Engraved: By John and Charles Sherwin (after an intermediary drawing by Thomas Lawrence), published Nov 5 1782 by R & C Crutwell, Bath (of Thomas Wilson only).
     

Collections

  • The sitter; 
  • Mrs Joseph Ackland, by descent, by 1902;
  • Phillips, London, 11 December 1984, lot 14;
  • Christie’s, New York, 12 January 1996, lot 116;
  • Chawton House Library, Hampshire to 2018

Exhibitions

  • Glasgow, Glasgow Art Gallery, Loan Collection of Pictures by French and British Artists of the 18th Century, 1902, cat. no.158;
  • Bath, Holburne Museum, and Derby, Derby Museum & Art Gallery, Joseph Wright, Bath and Beyond, 2014, cat. no. 7.

Literature

  • Benedict Nicolson, Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light, London, 1968, vol. I, p. 226;
  • Bridget Hill, The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian, Oxford, 1992, pl. 10, p. 84;
  • Susan Legouix Sloman, ‘Artists’ picture-rooms in eighteenth century Bath’, Bath History 6, 1996, pp. 137-9;
  • Susan Sloman, Amina Wright, Trevor Fawcett and Philippa Bishop, Pickpocketing the Rich: Portrait Painting in Bath 1720-1800, (exh. cat., Holburne Museum of Art, Bath) Bath, 2002, pp. 20-22, 28, 84;
  • Michael Levey, Sir Thomas Lawrence, New Haven & London, 2005, pp. 48, 112;
  • James Wyatt Cook and Barbara Collier Cook, Man-Midwife, Male Feminist: The Life and Times of George Macaulay M.D., Ph. D. (1716-1766), Ann Arbor, 2006, p. 223;
  • Elizabeth E. Barker, ‘Documents Relating to Joseph Wright ‘of Derby’ (1734-97)’, The Walpole Society, vol.71, 2009, pp.90-91;
  • Amina Wright, Joseph Wright, Bath and Beyond, exh. cat. Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 2014, pp.36-40, repr.p. 34;
  • Deborah Weiss, The Female Philosopher and her Afterlives: Mary Wollstonecraft, the British Novel, and the Transformations of Feminism, 1796-1811, London,2017, cover illustration.

Museum of Fine Arts Boston