Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton

William Beechey1815/1817

Details

Title: Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton
Creator: Sir William Beechey
Date Created: 1815/1817
Physical Dimensions: overall: 77 x 63.7 cm (30 5/16 x 25 1/16 in.) framed: 99 x 85.7 x 7.6 cm (39 x 33 3/4 x 3 in.)
Provenance: The artist; purchased February 1817 by Mr. Hall(?).[1] Major Campbell. (John Levy Galleries, New York), 1934; purchased by Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Jones, Jr. [1868-1928], Sewickley Heights, Pennsylvania; (sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 4-5 December 1941, 1st day, no. 22); William R. Coe [1869-1955], Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York; Coe Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA. [1] There were four recorded versions of this portrait. One remained in Beechey's possession, and was purchased by the Duke of Wellington at the sale following the artist's death. This is now at Apsley House, London. Another was bought from Beechey for fifty guineas, the price of the original, by a Mr. Hall, who paid for it in February 1917. The Washington [NGA] picture is inferior in quality to the version at Apsley House, which is more solidly modeled and more firmly drawn, and may well be the portrait acquired by Hall, probably painted to order.
Rights: CC0
Medium: oil on canvas

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