Live Auction 2576Christie's Interiors
John Opie, R.A. (BRITISH, 1761-1807)
Lot 103 PROPERTY OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND

John Opie, R.A. (BRITISH, 1761-1807)

Portrait of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, three-quarter-length, standing beside a table

Closed29 August 2012

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USD 3,750

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John Opie, R.A. (BRITISH, 1761-1807)
Portrait of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, three-quarter-length, standing beside a table
oil on canvas
50 7/8 x 40 in. (129.2 x 101.6 cm.)

R.A. Oswald, Auchencrieve.
Commander Wemyss, London.
R. Wemyss Brown, Loachton Castle; Christie's, London 14 May 1920, lot 88.
Mrs. C.A. Wemyss-Brown; Christie's, London, 28 April 1944, lot 97, as 'Raeburn'.
Colonel M. Cotton, London.
with Newhouse Galleries, New York.
The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1952.

Specialist note

Charles James Fox was an outspoken member of the Whig party and prominent member of the House of Commons whose opinions, including his staunch support of the American Revolution, were some of the most radical in the Parliament of his time. The present picture relates to a full-length portrait of Fox painted by John Opie in 1804 and now at Holkham Hall, on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk.