Live Auction 1186The Collection of Professor Sir Albert Richardson, P.R.A.
John Theodore Heins (?Germany c.1697-1756 Norwich)
Lot 4

John Theodore Heins (?Germany c.1697-1756 Norwich)

Portrait of John Harvey (1699-1750), three-quarter-length, in a brown coat and gold embroidered waistcoat, beside a green draped table with a letter

Closed19 September 2013

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John Theodore Heins (?Germany c.1697-1756 Norwich)
Portrait of John Harvey (1699-1750), three-quarter-length, in a brown coat and gold embroidered waistcoat, beside a green draped table with a letter
signed and dated 'Heins , Fec: 1744.' (lower right)
with identifying inscription 'JOHN HARVEY ESQ.R. born 1699. died 1750. El. son of J. HARVEY ESQ.R.' (upper left and right)
oil on canvas
50 1/8 x 40 in. (127.3 x 101.6 cm.)
in a contemporary running pattern frame

Colonel J.R. Harvey, Holmwood, Thorpe, Norwich.

Specialist note

John Harvey was the eldest son of John Harvey (1666-1742) of St. Clements, Norwich. He married Margaret, daughter of John Hunt, Worlington, Norfolk and according to Rye's Norfolk Families (loc. cit.) was a linen draper in London.