Details
JOHN RUSSELL, R.A. (PLYMOUTH 1745-1806 HULL)
Portrait of Major Edward Topham (1751-1820), half-length in a blue coat, holding a quill
signed and dated 'J. Russell pinxt./ 1788' (centre left)
pastel
23 1/2 x 17 1/4 in.. (59.7 x 43.8 cm.)
Provenance
The sitter, and by descent to his grandson
Rear-Admiral Trollope.
J. Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Anonymous sale; Christies, London, 10 July 1984, lot 150.
with Spink, London, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
J. Boaden, Life of Mrs Inchbold, 1833, I, p. 271.
G.C. Williamson, John Russell R.A., 1894, p. 167.
N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, online edition, J.64.2818.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1788, no. 439.
London, The Clarendon Gallery, The art of the pastel, April - August 1986, no. 36.
Details
JOHN RUSSELL, R.A. (PLYMOUTH 1745-1806 HULL)
Portrait of Major Edward Topham (1751-1820), half-length in a blue coat, holding a quill
signed and dated 'J. Russell pinxt./ 1788' (centre left)
pastel
23 1/2 x 17 1/4 in.. (59.7 x 43.8 cm.)
Provenance
The sitter, and by descent to his grandson
Rear-Admiral Trollope.
J. Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Anonymous sale; Christies, London, 10 July 1984, lot 150.
with Spink, London, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
J. Boaden, Life of Mrs Inchbold, 1833, I, p. 271.
G.C. Williamson, John Russell R.A., 1894, p. 167.
N. Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, online edition, J.64.2818.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1788, no. 439.
London, The Clarendon Gallery, The art of the pastel, April - August 1986, no. 36.
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