© Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Portrait of Richard Arkwright Junior with his Wife Mary and Daughter Anne
Artist: Joseph Wright of Derby (1734 - 1797)
Location: Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Date: 1790
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 244 x 158.5cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £55,000 (Total: £1,217,500)
Vendor: Through Nevill Keating Pictures Ltd
Review number: 5227 (2003)
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Provenance:
By family descent in the Arkwright family; Sotheby's, 2001; private collection.
Description:
Richard Arkwright junior (1755-1843), was the son of Sir Richard Arkwright, the inventor and cotton manufacturer. The sitter also worked in the family cotton business and was an astute financier. He acted as banker to the gentry and aristocracy including Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. This portrait was a pendant to Wright's painting of his father, and originally hung in the family home at Willersley Castle.
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