Live Auction 5860Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolours
Christie’s roundel
Lot 154

John Opie (Truro 1761-1807 London)

Portrait of Sir Daniel Williams, Colonel of the Tower Hamlets Militia, three-quarter-length, in a black suit, seated at a window, the Tower of London beyond

Closed11 December 2009

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GBP 3,750

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John Opie (Truro 1761-1807 London)
Portrait of Sir Daniel Williams, Colonel of the Tower Hamlets Militia, three-quarter-length, in a black suit, seated at a window, the Tower of London beyond
oil on canvas
50½ x 40 in. (128.4 x 101.7 cm.)

Mrs Mansel Rees; Christie's, London, 25 January 1904, lot 53.
C.E. Arengo Jones, Taunton; Christie's, London, 8 June 1914, lot 109 (6 gns. to Shenor [or Sheneur]).
Sir John Gorst.
Mrs. M.F. Braund, Chelsea; Christie's, London, 12 February 1932, lot 105 (14 gns. to Ackerman).

Specialist note

Sir Daniel Williams Kt., Colonel of the Tower Hamlets Militia, was the magistrate sent to take the depositons after the famous naval mutiny at the Nore, a Royal Navy anchorage in the Thames Estuary which was overwhelmed in May 1797.