10th Mar, 2015 10:00
SPRING COUNTRY HOUSE SALE
198
Thomas Hudson (1701-1779) PORTRAIT OF SIR WILLIAM BROWNE (1692-1774)
PORTRAIT OF SIR WILLIAM BROWNE (1692-1774), THREE-QUARTER LENGTH SEATED, IN A BLACK COAT AND GOLD BROCADE WITH A BOOK IN HIS LEFT HAND AND A STAFF OF OFFICE IN HIS RIGHT, A MACE BEHIND HIM
Inscribed 'D Gulielmus Browne Equ. A(?) Iectus Prov. Coll. Med. 1765 etat. 7(?), ob 1772, T Hudson fecit 1766', oil on canvas
126 x 101cm
Exhibited: The Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, London, 'Thomas Hudson',
cat. no. 65
Born in 1692, Sir William Browne was educated in Durham and at Peterhouse College Cambridge. After graduating, he worked as a doctor in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, for more than thirty years before moving to Bloomsbury, London, in 1749.
He was President of the College of Physicians in 1765 and 1766, having been a Fellow of the College since 1726; he resigned during his five-year term of office because of a dispute. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1739 and was knighted in 1748.
He died on 10 March 1774 and left money for a scholarship at Peterhouse, and gold medals to be awarded to Cambridge students for poetry in Greek and Latin.
The picture was also produced in a mezzotint by John Dixon in 1766.
Sold for £13,000
Condition Report
Old relining. Canvas loose in frame. Craquelure throughout, intense in places.
2x1cm damage and loss in lower right corner. Line across centre, could be old fold.
Small areas of paint losses. Seen under u/v light, small areas of retouching to background.
No obvious retouching to face, may have had early restoration.
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Auction: SPRING COUNTRY HOUSE SALE, 10th Mar, 2015
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