John Hoppner
Portrait of Lady Bagot., 1807
Oil on canvas
30 × 25 1/4 in / 76.2 × 64.1 cm
$ 450,000.00
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The sitter is Mary Charlotte Anne Wellesley-Pole, eldest daughter of William, 4th Earl of Mornington, and niece to the Duke of Wellington and two-time Prime Minister of England. This is...
The sitter is Mary Charlotte Anne Wellesley-Pole, eldest daughter of
William, 4th Earl of Mornington, and niece to the Duke of Wellington and
two-time Prime Minister of England. This is one of Hoppner's best
works. It's on a par with Ladies Sarah and Lady Catherine Bligh in the
Frick Collection and the Frankland Sisters in the National Gallery in
Washington. The sitter is a beautiful young woman painted in an
exquisitely refined and sophisticated style. In British portraiture,
it's the sitter that mostly determines the desirability and value of the
art. Lady Bagot showcases the quintessence of aristocratic elegance.
The frame is a rare, and mostly hand-carved, period British Rococo frame
with a plaque. You can find a Hoppner hanging in the Frick Collection
next to Sir Joshua Reynolds and John Constable and steps away from
Rembrandt and Vermeer.
Hoppner's background treatment prefigures by forty years the quick and loose gestural brushstrokes of Impressionism.
The painting was sold in 1924 to John Ford of Detroit for a sum of $30,000.
$30,000
in 1924 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $456,971.93 today,
an increase of $426,971.93 over 97 years. The dollar has had an average
inflation rate of 2.85% per year between 1924 and today, resulting in a
cumulative price increase of 1,423.24%.
Engraved in mezzotint by J.C. Webb, 1904.
Provenance:
Property of John B. Ford Marital Trust. Mary Charlotte Anne
Wellesley-Pole, eldest daughter of William, 4th Earl of Mornington and
niece to the Duke of Wellington, was born in 1786 and married in 1806 to
Sir Charles Bagot, Under Secretary for the State for Foreign Affairs,
Minister Plenipotentiary, Ambassador to St. Petersburg, The Hague and
Vienna - also Governor General of Canada.
Sir Alan Desmond Bagot, Bt., of Levens Hall, Milnthorpe, Westmorland
M. Knoedler & Co.
Exhibitions:
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.'s Gallery, London, 1904, number 11, lent by Colonel Bagot, M.P.
Literature:
'Hoppner' by McKay and Roberts, facing page 10, and catalogued there on page 10: 'A charmingly painted picture.
William, 4th Earl of Mornington, and niece to the Duke of Wellington and
two-time Prime Minister of England. This is one of Hoppner's best
works. It's on a par with Ladies Sarah and Lady Catherine Bligh in the
Frick Collection and the Frankland Sisters in the National Gallery in
Washington. The sitter is a beautiful young woman painted in an
exquisitely refined and sophisticated style. In British portraiture,
it's the sitter that mostly determines the desirability and value of the
art. Lady Bagot showcases the quintessence of aristocratic elegance.
The frame is a rare, and mostly hand-carved, period British Rococo frame
with a plaque. You can find a Hoppner hanging in the Frick Collection
next to Sir Joshua Reynolds and John Constable and steps away from
Rembrandt and Vermeer.
Hoppner's background treatment prefigures by forty years the quick and loose gestural brushstrokes of Impressionism.
The painting was sold in 1924 to John Ford of Detroit for a sum of $30,000.
$30,000
in 1924 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $456,971.93 today,
an increase of $426,971.93 over 97 years. The dollar has had an average
inflation rate of 2.85% per year between 1924 and today, resulting in a
cumulative price increase of 1,423.24%.
Engraved in mezzotint by J.C. Webb, 1904.
Provenance:
Property of John B. Ford Marital Trust. Mary Charlotte Anne
Wellesley-Pole, eldest daughter of William, 4th Earl of Mornington and
niece to the Duke of Wellington, was born in 1786 and married in 1806 to
Sir Charles Bagot, Under Secretary for the State for Foreign Affairs,
Minister Plenipotentiary, Ambassador to St. Petersburg, The Hague and
Vienna - also Governor General of Canada.
Sir Alan Desmond Bagot, Bt., of Levens Hall, Milnthorpe, Westmorland
M. Knoedler & Co.
Exhibitions:
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.'s Gallery, London, 1904, number 11, lent by Colonel Bagot, M.P.
Literature:
'Hoppner' by McKay and Roberts, facing page 10, and catalogued there on page 10: 'A charmingly painted picture.