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Portrait of Richard Ellison (), threequarterlength, in a claret coat; and Portrait of Esther Ellison, ne Walker (), threequarterlength, in a blue dress by 
																	Joseph Wright of Derby

Joseph Wright of Derby

( British, 1734 - 1797 )

Portrait of Richard Ellison (), threequarterlength, in a claret coat; and Portrait of Esther Ellison, ne Walker (), threequarterlength, in a blue dress

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Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

128.1 x 102.2

Description:

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Literature:

B. Nicholson, Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light, London, 1968, I, p. 196.

Provenance:

Commissioned from the artist by the sitters, listed in the artist's Account Book among sitters of circa 1760 at 12.12, and by descent to their daughter, Susanna Ellison, wife of Colonel Humphrey Waldo Sibthorp (1744-1815), Canwick Hall, Lincolnshire, and by descent to their son,Charles de Laet Waldo Sibthorp (1783-1855), and by descent to his son,Coningsby Charles Sibthorpe (1846-1932), Canwick Hall, Lincolnshire.A private members' club, London.Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 21 October 2021, lot 79, as 'Follower of Thomas Hudson'.

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