LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

50.51 in. (128.30 cm.) (height) by 40.51 in. (102.90 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy, 1794, no. 120, as 'Portrait of a boy'. London, Royal Academy, Works of the Old Masters, 1876, no. 41, as 'The Red Boy' (lent by Hardy Wells).

Literature:

J.J. Rogers, Opie and his works, London, 1887, pp. 122-3 and 204. A. Earland, John Opie and his circle, London, 1911, pp. 292 and 341.

Provenance:

Hardy Wells, by 1876. W.A. Darent Harrison; Christie's, London, 3 June 1876, lot 49 (sold for 26 gns. to Lesser). George Williams, of Scorrier, Cornwall. Colonel Repington, by 1911. Mrs William George Raphael, 9 Connaught Place, London. With Thos. Agnews & Sons Ltd., London. Mr George Ansley, by the late 1940s, and by descent to the present owners.