Cultural Legacies

Portrait by Francis Alleyne of The Hon Anne St John Trefusis (Mrs Maxwell Adams) placed at auction [Lot no. 243] at Busby Auctions, Bridport, 17/09/2015.

The Allen Brothers (Portrait of James and John Lee Allen) by Henry Raeburn, early 1790s, painted for John Allen, now in the Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth Texas.

Old Masters and modern pictures

Carita, by Andrea del Sarto, now in National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, purchased by John Proctor Anderdon in 1826.

On 15/05/1847, Christie & Manson sold the 'celebrated and very important collection of Italian, Spanish, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures, of John Proctor Anderdon.' Anderdon had expected them to fetch some £10,000.

Four Angels by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617–1682). Oil on canvas: 18 1/4 x 24 1/8 inches (46.4 x 61.3 cm).

Part of the collection of Italian, Spanish, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures owned by John Proctor Anderson and sold on 15 May 1847 by Christie & Manson.

For a description of the painting and an image of it see Robert Simon Fine Art, accessed 26 Sept., 2017.

You can also see the picture here.

Thanks to Allyson Take for help with compiling this entry.

The Triumph of David by the Studio of Giovanni Francesco Barbieri called Guercino. Oil on canvas 137cm x 180.5cm.

Part of the collection of Italian, Spanish, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures owned by John Proctor Anderson and sold on 15 May 1847 by Christie & Manson.

For a description of the painting and an image of it see Burghley Collections, accessed 3 Oct., 2017.

Thanks to Allyson Take for help with compiling this entry.

Portrait of Mrs John Julius Angerstein, by Sir Thomas Lawrence (n.d.), in the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia.

'Sir Thomas Lawrence enjoyed the patronage of John Julius and Elizabeth Angerstein, who were successful English merchants in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Mrs. Angerstein’s active pose and purposeful gaze suggests a woman who is both elegant and alert. The spacious composition of unfolding landscape and distant sea confers an aristocratic gravitas: she owns her world as surely as she and her husband own the boat that floats on the sea at right. The Angerstein’s wealth came largely from selling marine insurance, but they were involved in other ventures, including mercantile finance, the creation of Lloyds of London (a business that continues to thrive today) and the slave trade. It is difficult and even painful for us, as American citizens of the twenty-first century, to reconcile the seeming creativity and capabilities of historic figures such as the Angersteins with the cataclysm of trafficking in the enslavement of fellow humans.'

https://woodmereartmuseum.org/explore-online/collection/mrs-john-julius-angerstein

Gillray, James; One of six sketches made for the caricature Connoisseurs examining a collection of George Morland's; First idea for the principal figure, said to be John Julius Angerstein; Sketched in black chalk; English School; 18th - early 19th century. Related drawings are at: Angerstein 1; Angerstein 2; Angerstein 3; Angerstein 4; Angerstein 5; Angerstein 6.

Drawing, Portrait head of a young man, possibly William Lock III of Norbury (1804-1832), by Sir Thomas Lawrence.

Watercolour by Frederick Mackenzie depicting the principal room of the original National Gallery. Great Britain, ca. 1824-34.

Drawing by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), Portrait, probably of Lady Susan North, c.1815. Graphite and red and black chalk.

Francesco Guardi, Venice: A View of the Rialto Bridge from the Fondamente del Carob (c. 1768). Oil on canvas, 120 x 203.7 cm

The Bailie Family, Painting by Thomas Gainsborough 1784, left by Alexander Baillie to the National gallery subject to the life-interest of his brother Evan Hamilton Baillie (who d. 1857).

Drawing of Alexander Baillie in graphite by Ingres, c. 1816, now in a private collection. The drawing was included in the catalogue Portaits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch eds. G. Tinterow and P. Conisbee (Metropolitan Museum of New York, 1999) of an exhibition also shown at the National Gallery in London (pp. 209-210).

Bust of Alexander Baillie by Bertel Thorvaldsen c. 1816 now in the Thorvaldsen Museum.

Venus, Mars and Cupid in Vulcan's Smithy, marble relief by Bertel Thorvaldsen, commissioned by Alexander Baillie and his partner Jorgen Knutzdon c. 1816, reportedly now at Stoke Park in Buckinghamshire.

The Crucifixion, attributed to Jan Provost c. 1495. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Part of a significant collection amassed by Hugh Duncan Baillie.

Painting by Thomas Gainsborough 1784.

Portrait of Francis Beckford by Joshua Reynolds 1755-1756. One of a pair with his wife Suzanna nee Love. Both are now in Tate Britain.

Suzanna Beckford, portait by Sir Joshua Reynolds c. 1755. One of a pair with her husband Francis Beckford. Both are now in Tate Britain.

Portraits of Peter Beckford and Bathshua Beckford painted by Benjamin West c. 1797, after the deaths of the sitters. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Statuette, terracotta, Alderman William Beckford, Lord Mayor of London, by Nathaniel Smith, England, 1770.

Sketches of Character, In Illustration of the Habits, Occupation, and Costume of the Negro Population in the Island of Jamaica

Collector of glass, plate, ceramics, and miniatures.

BISHOP, Hon. Mrs Henry. Elizabeth Harris, wife of the Hon. Henry Bishop described as 'head of the Court of the Common Pleas of St. Michael'. ? 1803. 30 x 25. Seated half-right, head turned and looking up r., her r. arm over the back of her chair. San Marino . Henry E . Huntington Library and Art Gallery. At one time with Leggatt; purchased by Lady Gilbert Carter in the Barbados ; Jacques Seligman, New York, by whom sold to Mrs Charles Quinn, Los Angeles, who presented it to the Huntington Foundation. Apparently a studio version of Lady Maria Hamilton. There is an entry in the ledgers of Coutts and Co., November, 1803, 'For Mrs. Bishop's picture & frame £67' but it is unlikely to relate to this picture. No other portrait of a Mrs Bishop is known to the compiler

Portrait of Sir George Blackman by John Hoppner, held by the Bank of England Museum.

Collector of art library. Included copies of Blake's Songs of Innocence, America, Europe, Jerusalem and the Gates of Paradise.