Museum of Fine Arts Boston
The Rev. Dr Thomas Wilson and his adopted daughter Miss Catherine Sophia Macaulay
- 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.
