Lot Essay
The Rev. Edward Wilson, a graduate of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, was tutor to William Pitt the Younger from 1765.
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A group portrait of the Wilson family, with Mrs Wilson, neé Hotham, the reverend Edward Wilson and their two sons, with another figure, by a memorial to William Pitt the Elder, in the garden at Binfield
Details
Circle of John Downman, A.R.A. (Ruabon, North Wales 1750-1824 Wrexham)
A group portrait of the Wilson family, with Mrs Wilson, neé Hotham, the reverend Edward Wilson and their two sons, with another figure, by a memorial to William Pitt the Elder, in the garden at Binfield
inscribed 'MEMORY of WILLIAM' (centre right, on the memorial), 'M Wilson Binfield Bracknell Chatham Berks' (centre left, on the letter) and 'The Gazettan Journal Monday Sept 6[?]9' (centre, on the newspaper)
oil on canvas
27 7/8 x 36 1/8 in. (70.8 x 91.8 cm.)
A group portrait of the Wilson family, with Mrs Wilson, neé Hotham, the reverend Edward Wilson and their two sons, with another figure, by a memorial to William Pitt the Elder, in the garden at Binfield
inscribed 'MEMORY of WILLIAM' (centre right, on the memorial), 'M Wilson Binfield Bracknell Chatham Berks' (centre left, on the letter) and 'The Gazettan Journal Monday Sept 6[?]9' (centre, on the newspaper)
oil on canvas
27 7/8 x 36 1/8 in. (70.8 x 91.8 cm.)
Provenance
Mrs. M.C. Clerke-Brown; Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1965, lot 126, as 'J. Zoffany' (£3,000).
with Leger Galleries, London, 1971.
with Leger Galleries, London, 1971.
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