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Portrait of William Fermor

Anton Raphael Mengs, 1757

Little is known of the sitter except that he was the eldest son of Henry Fermor (d. I746) of Tusmore, Oxfordshire. He was painted in Rome both by Mengs and his rival Pompeo Batoni, as Horace Walpole recorded in a list of pictures by Mengs in England in his Anecdotes of Painting in England: 'Mr Farmer, a Roman Catholic, son of lady Brown, has his own portrait both by Mencks and Pompeio'.

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Title of artwork, date

Portrait of William Fermor, 1757

Date supported

1978

Medium and material

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

62 x 47 cm

Grant

2500

Total cost

11900

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