In her will proved in 1797, Martha Bersheba Sober left a portrait of her father by Gainsborough to Mrs Eliz. Middleton of Kensington Palace. This portrait is almost certainly that of David Middleton, surgeon to George III, which is in the Cincinnati Museum and of which a later mezzotint by George Sanders is in the National Portrait Gallery. There have been efforts to re-identify the sitter as J.C. Bach.
NPG D38403 http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw199389/David-Middleton [accessed 08/10/2016]; Joan S. Reis, 'A third Gainsborough portrait of Johannes Christian Bach?', Musical Quarterly (1990) 74 (2) pp. 295-302; http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/explore-the-collection?id=16326251 [accessed 09/10/2016].
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Collector?
Yes
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Current Location
Cincinnati, USA
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Current Owner
Cincinnati Art Museum
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1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
