Lot 214
Lot 214
Property of a Private Collector
JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY, A.R.A (DERBY 1734-1797)

An old man, half-length, in a fur-lined coat

Price Realised GBP 37,800
Estimate
GBP 40,000 - GBP 60,000
Closed: 8 Jul 2022
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JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY, A.R.A (DERBY 1734-1797)

An old man, half-length, in a fur-lined coat

Price Realised GBP 37,800
Closed: 8 Jul 2022
Price Realised GBP 37,800
Closed: 8 Jul 2022
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JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY, A.R.A (DERBY 1734-1797)
An old man, half-length, in a fur-lined coat
oil on canvas
3614 x 28 in. (92 x 71 cm.)
Provenance
John Holland (1734-1807), Ford Hall, Derbyshire.
Hall family of Parkhall, Mansfield and by descent to,
Mrs. Flora C. Hall, Guelph, Ontario; (†), Ward-Price, Toronto, 25 September 1946.
Mrs. Edward Maclean Stewart, Guelph, Ontario, by 1964.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 26 May 2000, lot 39.
with Simon Dickinson, Ltd., London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 27 January 2010, lot 55, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
R. Morris, 'Joseph Wright, A.R.A.', Apollo, XV, January 1932, pp. 35-40.
B. Nicolson, Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light, I, London, 1968, pp. 64, 138, 233, no. 181; II, p. 145, plate 228
Exhibited
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, on loan, by 1964.
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