© Judges' Lodgings
Portrait of Mrs James Hardman
Artist: Joseph Wright of Derby (1734 - 1797)
Location: Judges' Lodgings
Date: 1769
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 76 x 64 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £5,500 (Total: £22,000)
Vendor: Leger Galleries
Review number: 4343 (1996)
Provenance:
The sitter; Sir Hardman Earle, 1st Bt; by descent to Sir Hardman George Earle; Leger Galleries.
Description:
Portrait of Jane Hardman (1702-1795), daughter of George Leigh of Oughterington, Cheshire. In 1732 she married James Hardman who, with his brother John, had just purchased Allerton Hall, near Liverpool. When this portrait was painted she was one of the wealthiest people in Lancashire, principally through her questionable appropriation of the remaining half-share in the Allerton Hall estate from her late husband's brother.
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