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Sir William Beechey
(Burford 1753-1839 Hampstead)
Portrait of Thomas Lowndes, full-length, in a black coat and breeches,

Old Master Paintings

5 December 2018, 14:00 GMT

London, New Bond Street

Sold for £22,500 inc. premium

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Sir William Beechey (Burford 1753-1839 Hampstead)

Portrait of Thomas Lowndes, full-length, in a black coat and breeches, seated with his dog before a landscape
signed with initials and dated 'WB. 1823' (on rock, lower left)
oil on canvas, unlined
238.4 x 146cm (93 7/8 x 57 1/2in).

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Provenance
Presumably the sitter, Thomas Lowndes, Barrington Hall, Harlow, Essex
With Ehrich Galleries, New York, where acquired by
Mrs Whitelaw Reid, Ophir Hall, New York, by whose executors offered
Sale, American Art Association Anderson Galleries, Ophir Hall, New York, 14-18 May 1935, lot 1192
Mr Ogden Reid, New York
Acquired by the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, USA, in 1952, by whom offered
Sale, Christie's, London, 16 November 1990, lot 16
With Julian Simon Fine Art, London, where purchased by the present owner

Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1824, no. 124

Literature
W. Robert, William Beechey, London/ New York, 1907, pp. 162-3, 256, 276
W. R. Valentiner, North Carolina Museum of Art: Catalogue of Paintings, 1956, p. 55, no. 76
North Carolina Museum of Fine Art: British Paintings to 1900, North Carolina, 1969, vol. II, pp.4-5, cat. no. 64

Engraved
in mezzotint, by William Say, published 1826

The sitter, Thomas Lowndes (1767-1835), of Barrington Hall, was a wealthy London merchant and a generous patron of Beechey. Between 1823 and 1825 Lowndes commissioned the present full-length portrait of himself and portraits of his father and daughter, amounting to a total payment of £546. He also sent the artist a gift of 50 guineas in December 1823 (see: W. Roberts ibid, pp. 256-7).

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