[Portrait of Bishop Beilby Porteus] [art original] / J. Downman 1790.

Creator:

Downman, John, 1750-1824, artist.

Published/Created:

[England],
1790.

Physical Description:

1 drawing : pastel ; sheet 20.3 x 17 cm

Related Links:

http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitemg.asp?itemid=lwlpr31245

Notes:

Title devised by curator.
Signed by the artist lower right: J. Downman 1790.
Purchased at Christie's, 21 December 1950, lot 63 (16 gns. to Andrade). Sotheby's, 4 December 1957, lot 17 to Agnew for W.S. Lewis, with a companion drawing of his wife, Mrs. Porteus, née Margaret Hodgson (see Lewis Walpole Library Drawings D751 no. 20.
John Downman, Britsh artist, 1750-1824.

Abstract:

Portrait of Bishop Beilby Porteus (sometimes Porteous), Bishop of Chester 1776-1787 and Bishop of London 1787-1809. He and his wife were intimate friends of Hannah More who introduced them to Horace Walpole.

Topics:

Bishops--England.

Topics:

Porteus, Beilby,--1731-1809--Portraits.

Language:

English

Genre:

Pastels (Visual works)--British--18th century.
Portraits.

Format:

Image

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

Drawings
D751
no. 1
Drawings D751 no. 1 Framed, shelved in LFS, Bin 30

Orbis Record:

11879729

Yale Collection:

LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr31245

Citation:

John Downman, Portrait of Bishop Beilby Porteus. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

OID:

15960087

PID:

digcoll:2796629