[Portrait of Mrs. 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

Notes:

Title devised by curator.
Signed by the artist lower right: J. Downman 1790.
Purchased at Sotheby's, 4 December 1957, lot 17 to Agnew for W.S. Lewis, with a companion drawing of her husband, Bishop Beilby Porteus (see Lewis Walpole Library Drawings D751 no. 1).
John Downman, British artist, 1750-1824.

Abstract:

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

Topics:

Porteus, Margaret Hodgson,--1741-1815--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. 2
Drawings D751 no. 2 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 31

Orbis Record:

11879871

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr31246_a

Citation:

John Downman, Portrait Mrs. Porteus. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

OID:

15960090

PID:

digcoll:2796635