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400. BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON (1786-1846). PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, IDENTIFIED AS NATHANIEL HOWARD, SCHOOLMASTER IN TAMERTON FOLIOT, DEVON.

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BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON (1786-1846). PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, IDENTIFIED AS NATHANIEL HOWARD, SCHOOLMASTER IN TAMERTON FOLIOT, DEVON.
400. 2669717. BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON (1786-1846). PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, IDENTIFIED AS NATHANIEL HOWARD, SCHOOLMASTER IN TAMERTON FOLIOT, DEVON.

Description

Bust length, wearing a red coat and white shirt, signed and dated `B. R. Haydon/ 1807` verso, oil on canvas
50 x 42.5cm.

* The pose mirrors closely Haydon's c.1811 portrait of the poet James Henry Leigh Hunt (b.1784) (London, National Portrait Gallery). Further biographical details of the sitter are available upon request.

Provenance: George Lambert MP (1866-1958) and thence by descent.

Condition

Scattered retouching from a 1979 restoration; small tear lower left.

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400. 2669717. BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON (1786-1846). PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, IDENTIFIED AS NATHANIEL HOWARD, SCHOOLMASTER IN TAMERTON FOLIOT, DEVON.

Description

Bust length, wearing a red coat and white shirt, signed and dated `B. R. Haydon/ 1807` verso, oil on canvas
50 x 42.5cm.

* The pose mirrors closely Haydon's c.1811 portrait of the poet James Henry Leigh Hunt (b.1784) (London, National Portrait Gallery). Further biographical details of the sitter are available upon request.

Provenance: George Lambert MP (1866-1958) and thence by descent.

Condition

Scattered retouching from a 1979 restoration; small tear lower left.

Resale right

No

Sale

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Catalogue no
400

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