John Hoppner
Lady Hester King
76.2 x 63.5 cmOil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Bernard M. Baruch, in memory of his wife, Annie Griffen Baruch
Literature
Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, British paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875, New York; New Haven and London, 2009, nr. 98
Provenance
the artist (until d. 1810; his estate, 1810-23
his estate sale, Christie's, London, May 3I, 1823, no. 11
Bernard M. Baruch, New York (until 1959, as Portrait of a Lady)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, gift of Bernard M. Baruch
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Other works by John Hoppner
Portrait of a Woman
Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Her Son
Sarah Franklin Bache
Richard Humphreys, the Boxer
George IV as Prince of Wales