Noble & Private Collections Including Property from Corby Castle, Cumbria, and Marco Voena’s London Pied-à-Terre

Noble & Private Collections Including Property from Corby Castle, Cumbria, and Marco Voena’s London Pied-à-Terre

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The Principal Contents of Corby Castle, Cumbria

John Hoppner, R.A.

Portrait of Charles Howard, Duke of Norfolk, E.M. (1746–1815), three-quarter-length, seated wearing peer's robes

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November 19, 01:30 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

Bid

3,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

The Principal Contents of Corby Castle, Cumbria


John Hoppner, R.A.

London 1758–1810

Portrait of Charles Howard, Duke of Norfolk, E.M. (1746–1815), three-quarter-length, seated wearing peer's robes


inscribed, lower right: CHARLES HOWARD. DUKE OF / NORFOLK, OB. 16 DEC. 1815 / AN. ETAT. 69.

oil on canvas

unframed: 142.4 x 119.8 cm.; 56⅛ x 47⅛ in.

framed: 172.1 x 147.2 cm.; 67¾ x 58 in.

Charles Howard (1746–1815), 11th Duke of Norfolk, Corby Castle, Cumbria;

By descent to Henry Howard (1757–1842), Corby Castle, Cumbria;

Anonymous sale (‘The Property of a Gentleman’), London, Christie’s, 30 June 1906, lot 137 (as J. Hoppner, R.A.), for 450 guineas, to ‘Lacey’;

Sir John Howard-Lawson Bt (b. 1934) and Lady Howard-Lawson (d. 2001), Corby Castle, Cumbria;

Their house sale, on the premises, Phillips Scotland, 18 May 1994, lot 230 (as John Hoppner);

Where acquired.

W. McKay and W. Roberts, John Hoppner, R.A., London 1909, p. 184;

J. Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits, 1760–1790, London 2004, p. 362.

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