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PORTRAIT OF LADY CHARLOTTE PERCY, COUNTESS OF ASHBURNHAM
Auction: 02/04/2010 - 2/5/2010
Lot: 1156
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John Hoppner AUCTION RECORDS
1758 London, England - 1810 London, England. Known for: Portrait painting-aristocrats.
John Hoppner was an English portrait painter. He was born in Whitechapel. His father was of German extraction and his mother was one of the German attendants at the Royal Palace. Hoppner consequently... Read full biography
John Hoppner was an English portrait painter. He was born in Whitechapel. His father was of German extraction and his mother was one of the German attendants at the Royal Palace. Hoppner consequently received the patronage of George III, whose regard for him gave rise to unfounded scandal. As a... Read full biography
John Hoppner was an English portrait painter. He was born in Whitechapel. His father was of German extraction and his mother was one of the German attendants at the Royal Palace. Hoppner consequently received the patronage of George III, whose regard for him gave rise to unfounded scandal. As a boy, he was a chorister at the Royal Chapel, but showing strong inclination for art, in 1775, he became a student at the Royal Academy. In 1778 he took a silver medal for drawing from life, and in 1782... Read full biography
John Hoppner was an English portrait painter. He was born in Whitechapel. His father was of German extraction and his mother was one of the German attendants at the Royal Palace. Hoppner consequently received the patronage of George III, whose regard for him gave rise to unfounded scandal. As a boy, he was a chorister at the Royal Chapel, but showing strong inclination for art, in 1775, he became a student at the Royal Academy. In 1778 he took a silver medal for drawing from life, and in 1782 the Academy's highest award, the gold medal, for historical painting, his subject being King Lear. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1780. He preferred landscapes but turned to the more lucrative business of portrait painting. At once... Read full biography
John Hoppner was an English portrait painter. He was born in Whitechapel. His father was of German extraction and his mother was one of the German attendants at the Royal Palace. Hoppner consequently received the patronage of George III, whose regard for him gave rise to unfounded scandal. As a boy, he was a chorister at the Royal Chapel, but showing strong inclination for art, in 1775, he became a student at the Royal Academy. In 1778 he took a silver medal for drawing from life, and in 1782 the Academy's highest award, the gold medal, for historical painting, his subject being King Lear. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1780. He preferred landscapes but turned to the more lucrative business of portrait painting. At once successful, he had throughout his life the most fashionable and wealthy sitters, and was the greatest rival of Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830). Th... Read full biography
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeJane Harley (née Scott), Countess of Oxford, with Her Daughter, Jane Elizabeth Harley (later Lady Bickersteth Langdale)
John Hoppner Auction: 02/06/2025Lot: 404Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneePortrait of Charlotte Keppel (1771-1852), half-length, in a white dress
John Hoppner Auction: 07/06/2007Lot: 161Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneePortrait of Lady Mildmay, standing three-quarter-length, in a white dress, with her child, a landscape beyond
John Hoppner Auction: 10/04/2007Lot: 145Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeHenrietta Maria Vernon Atherton, 2nd Lady Lilford (d. 1820), of Atherton Hall, Leigh, with her two children
John Hoppner Auction: 07/02/2021 - 7/8/2021Lot: 203Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeHenrietta Maria Vernon Atherton, 2nd Lady Lilford (d. 1820), of Atherton Hall, Leigh, with her two children
John Hoppner Auction: 12/03/2021 - 12/9/2021Lot: 174Subscribe or get free alerts
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