Portrait of William Brooke

Joseph Wright of Derby (1734 - 1797)

Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery

1760

Seated and wearing a light brown velvet suit. Holds a book in his left hand and rests his right hand on his leg.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 127 x 102 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £13000 ( Total: £215,000; Export stopped)
• ArtFunded in: 1999
• Vendor: Mallett

Provenance

Pigot family thence by descent until 1967; sold at Sotheby's to the Plant family; passed to William Richards; passed to Nicholas Bagshawe then to current owner.

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