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Sir John Hoppner
Duke of Wellington's Niece, Portrait of Lady Bagot, Oil on Canvas, 30 x 25 inche

1807

$450,000
£340,136.90
€395,805.34
CA$634,803.43
A$640,204.02
CHF 372,702.49
MX$7,791,607.62
NOK 4,271,396.63
SEK 4,413,849.57
DKK 2,958,733.74

About the Item

In historical British portraiture, it's who the sitter is that drives the price. In the present work, the sitter is Mary Charlotte Anne Wellesley-Pole, eldest daughter of William, 4th Earl of Mornington, and niece of the Duke of Wellington and two-time Prime Minister of England. She married Sir Charles Bagot and became Lady Mary Charlotte Anne Bagot. Sir Charles Bagot became Britain’s first ambassador to the United States and then subsequently he served as the second Governor General of the Province of Canada from 1841 to 1843. Lady Mary Charlotte Anne Bagot accompanied him on his two-year diplomatic stints in Canada, which makes her perhaps one of the earliest First Ladies of Canada. 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 who 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.
  • Creator:
    Sir John Hoppner (1758 - 1810, British)
  • Creation Year:
    1807
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 25 in (63.5 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
    1780-1789
  • Condition:
    Some small losses on a few the extreme edges to the period English rococo frame otherwise work presents very well.
  • Gallery Location:
    Miami, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38538728172

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