Poppy Harvey-Jones
Head of Sale
Lot 12
Attributed to John Hoppner R.A.(London 1758-1810)Portrait of Anne Butler née Wandesford, later Countess of Ormonde with a child, full-length, in an interior
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6 July 2016, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£10,000 - £15,000
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Attributed to John Hoppner R.A. (London 1758-1810)
Portrait of Anne Butler née Wandesford, later Countess of Ormonde with a child, full-length, in an interior
oil on canvas
126.8 x 100.9cm (49 15/16 x 39 3/4in).
oil on canvas
126.8 x 100.9cm (49 15/16 x 39 3/4in).
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Provenance
Possibly Hoppner Sale, 31 May 1823, lot 59 (£5.7s to Jackson)
Possibly sale, Christie's, London, 19 January 1878, lot 16 (£33.12s to Wagner)
The Rolleston family and thence by descent to the present owner
Exhibited
Very probably Birmingham, 1931 (as by Sir Joshua Reynolds of Mrs Rolleston)
The present portrait was traditionally thought to be an ancestor of the present owner: Elizabeth,(1752-1801) daughter of George Carr of Northumberland, who married Samuel Rolleston of Great Pan Manor, Whippingham, Isle of Wight. Graves and Cronin do list a portrait of a 'Mrs Rollestone' (A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds PRS, 1899, vol. II, p. 842) and Reynolds's Ledger records payments to the artist in 1774 and 1776, indicating that more than one picture of her was painted; none, however, is now recorded. A picture said to represent Mrs Rolleston and Child was exhibited in Birmingham in 1931 (no. 60, lent by Rolleston Esq.) which Mannings was unable to trace (see: D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds, A complete catalogue of his paintings, 2000, p. 398, no. 1548). The latter is most likely the present portrait. The composition, however, is known from Sir Joshua Reynolds's portrait described in the 14 January 1994 catalogue of Sotheby's New York as 'Portrait of Lady Anne Butler, later Lady Ormonde and her child' (lot 83). This was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1871 when it belonged to the Duke of Westminster. That painting is half-length, whereas the original portrait was known to have been fuller in format, as is the case with the present portrait. Interestingly in their 1899 A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds PRS Graves and Cronin mention 'the sale at Christie's Jan 19, 1878, lot 16 (Forbes owner), a Mother and Child by Hoppner, for £33 12s to Wagner, Mr Graves puts this note: "copy by Hoppner of Lord Taunton's picture", which afterwards belonged to the Duke of Westminster, and exhibited by him in the Royal Academy in 1871.' A sketch of a Mother and Child was also listed amongst the pictures disposed of in the Hoppner sale in 1823. It is suggested that the present portrait may be those recorded as by Hoppner.
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