Live Auction 8999Colefax and Fowler, Then and Now: Collections From Hambleden Manor, Lushill, and 39 Brook Street, Mayfair
George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734-1802 Kendal)
Lot 155

George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734-1802 Kendal)

Portrait of Francis Newbery (1743-1818) of Heathfield Park, Sussex, half-length, in a dark brown coat with a white waistcoat and stock

Closed10 July 2013

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George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734-1802 Kendal)
Portrait of Francis Newbery (1743-1818) of Heathfield Park, Sussex, half-length, in a dark brown coat with a white waistcoat and stock
oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 25 1/8 in. (76.5 x 63.9 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 May 1899, lot 68 [to W. H. Smith] and by descent at Hambleden Manor.

Specialist note

The present portrait hung in the Entrance Hall at Hambleden Manor and depicts Francis Newbery (1743-1818), a distinguished publisher, scholar and poet. It was doubtless this publishing and literary connection that attracted the attention of William Frederick Danvers Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden (1868-1928) when he purchased it in 1899.