Details
JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY, A.R.A. (DERBY 1734-1797)
Portrait of Richard Ellison (1722-1797), three-quarter-length, in a claret coat; and Portrait of Esther Ellison, née Walker (1726-1813), three-quarter-length, in a blue dress
oil on canvas
501⁄2 x 401⁄4 in. (128.1 x 102.2 cm.)
the first inscribed 'Richard Ellison / -of- / Sudbrooke Holme/ born.1722.- died 1797.' (upper right); the second inscribed 'Esther, Wife of Richard Ellison. / Dau:& Co-heiress of / Henry Walker of Whitby. / born, 1726.- died, 1813.' (upper right)
a pair
Provenance
Commissioned from the artist by the sitters, listed in the artist's Account Book among sitters of circa 1760 at £12.12, and by descent to their daughter,
Susanna Ellison, wife of Colonel Humphrey Waldo Sibthorp (1744-1815), Canwick Hall, Lincolnshire, and by descent to their son,
Charles de Laet Waldo Sibthorp (1783-1855), and by descent to his son,
Coningsby Charles Sibthorpe (1846-1932), Canwick Hall, Lincolnshire.
A private members' club, London.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 21 October 2021, lot 79, as 'Follower of Thomas Hudson'. Literature
B. Nicholson, Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light, London, 1968, I, p. 196.Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
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Details
JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY, A.R.A. (DERBY 1734-1797)
Portrait of Richard Ellison (1722-1797), three-quarter-length, in a claret coat; and Portrait of Esther Ellison, née Walker (1726-1813), three-quarter-length, in a blue dress
oil on canvas
501⁄2 x 401⁄4 in. (128.1 x 102.2 cm.)
the first inscribed 'Richard Ellison / -of- / Sudbrooke Holme/ born.1722.- died 1797.' (upper right); the second inscribed 'Esther, Wife of Richard Ellison. / Dau:& Co-heiress of / Henry Walker of Whitby. / born, 1726.- died, 1813.' (upper right)
a pair
Provenance
Commissioned from the artist by the sitters, listed in the artist's Account Book among sitters of circa 1760 at £12.12, and by descent to their daughter,
Susanna Ellison, wife of Colonel Humphrey Waldo Sibthorp (1744-1815), Canwick Hall, Lincolnshire, and by descent to their son,
Charles de Laet Waldo Sibthorp (1783-1855), and by descent to his son,
Coningsby Charles Sibthorpe (1846-1932), Canwick Hall, Lincolnshire.
A private members' club, London.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 21 October 2021, lot 79, as 'Follower of Thomas Hudson'. Literature
B. Nicholson, Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light, London, 1968, I, p. 196.Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
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