LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

49.75 x 39.75 in. (126.4 x 100.9 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

Derby, Corporation Art Gallery, Wright of Derby: Catalogue of the bi-centenary Exhibition of Paintings by Joseph Wright, A.R.A., 3 September-18 November 1934, no. 122. New York, Durlacher Bros., Joseph Wright of Derby 1734-1797, 1-26 March 1960, no. 4.

Literature:

B. Nicolson, Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light, I, London and New York, 1968, pp. 2, 17, 28, 96-98, 103, 185, no. 29; II, p. 14, plate 26. R. Isepp, 'The Portraits by Wright of Derby', The Burlington Magazine, CXXI, May 1979, p. 311.

Provenance:

Painted for Rev. John Griffiths, D.D., Rector of Eckington (d. 1765), and by descent to M.C.M. Althorpe [sic], Esq., Dinnington Hall, near Sheffield, Yorkshire; Christie's, London, 27 April 1934, lot 92 (90 gns. to Leggatt). Mrs. Marietta Peabody Tree (1917-1991) and Mr. Ronald Tree (1897-1976), Ditchley Park, near Charlbury, Oxfordshire and New York, by 1934; their sale, Sotheby's, New York, 8-9 October 1976, lot 199, where acquired by the present owner.