
Poppy Harvey-Jones
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Provenance
Most probably Roger William Wilbraham (1817-97), Delamere Manor, Cheshire, and thence by descent to the present owner
Given the provenance of the painting, it is very likely that the present portrait shows a member of the Wilbraham family. Four Wilbraham brothers, George, John, Roger and Thomas, were in Italy between 1764 and 1773. The costume suggests that this portrait most probably dates to the 1760s which would make George Wilbraham (1741-1813) the most likely candidate as he was in Rome in 1764 and again 1766. Two of his younger brothers, Roger (1743-1829) and Thomas (born 1751) can be seen in Zoffany's Tribuna admiring the statue of the Venus de' Medici.