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RICHARD WESTALL, R.A. (HERTFORD 1765-1836 LONDON)

Lot 228
02.07.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1443033
Lot 228 | RICHARD WESTALL, R.A. (HERTFORD 1765-1836 LONDON)
Estimate value
£ 80 000 – 120 000
RICHARD WESTALL, R.A. (HERTFORD 1765-1836 LONDON)
The Grecian Marriage
oil on panel
47 1/8 x 71 ¾ in. (119.7 x 182.2 cm.)




Provenance

Commissioned in 1811 by Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824), Downton Castle, Herefordshire, and by descent to the present owner.



Literature

R.P. Knight, 'Northcote's Life of Reynolds', The Edinburgh Review, XLVI, September 1814, p. 287.
J. Greig, ed., The Farington Diary by Joseph Farington, R.A., VII, London, 1927, p. 128.
F.J. Messmann, Richard Payne Knight: The Twilight of Virtuosity, Paris, 1974, p. 144.
J. Gage, 'Manchester, The Whitworth Art Gallery. The Arrogant Connoisseur: Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824)', exhibition review, The Burlington Magazine, CXXIV, May 1982, p. 316.



Exhibited

London, New Gallery, An exhibition of a selection of the works of Richard Westall, R.A., including two hundred and forty pictures and drawings which have never before been exhibited, 1814, no. 108, 'A Marriage Procession of the Greeks - one of the Compartments of the Shield of Achilles' (lent by R.P. Knight, Esq.).
London, Royal Academy of Arts and Victoria and Albert Museum, The Age of Neo-Classicism, 9 September-19 November 1972, no. 274 (lent by D.P.H. Lennox).
Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, The Arrogant Connoisseur: Richard Payne Knight, 1751-1824, 1982, no. 206.
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