9th Dec, 2020 10:00
Fine Interiors - Two Day Sale - Live Online
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William Hoare of Bath RA (c.1707-1792)
William Hoare of Bath RA (c.1707-1792)
Portrait of Mrs Mary Canning (née Petre), half-length, in a white dress and blue wrap; and
Portrait of Francis Canning, her husband, half-length, in a plum-coloured coat and gold embroidered waistcoat
a pair, pastel, circa 1745
59 x 43cm, in the original carved giltwood frames (2)
Provenance: Foxcote House, Ilmington, Warwickshire.
Literature: 'Foxcote, The Story of an Estate', Margaret Fisher and Pearl Mitchell.
The Catholic family of Canning owned Foxcote in Warwickshire from the 15th century and the house was rebuilt in the early 18th century, probably to the designs of Edward Woodward. William Hoare executed this pair of portraits in the mid-1740s when the sitters were staying in Bath. They share a close similarity with the pair of portraits tentatively identified as William Ffolkes and his wife that now belong to the Bath Preservation Trust at No.1 the Crescent, Bath.
Foxcote is at the centre of one of the most impressive and elegant of Cotswold estates, the home to ten generations of the Canning family until the death of Robert Canning in 1848. In the 1960s the estate was purchased by Christopher Boot Holman, heir to Boots the Chemist.
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Sold for £7,000
Condition Report
Mary Canning: Surface dust and dirt and possibly a little light browning to the paper. Some light grey specks of foxing scattered throughout. A few very small surface abrasions, on blue wrap, in background and one or two small scratches in the hair. A pale green line under the nose. Slight bump in the paper in extreme lower right corner. Not seen outside of frame.
Francis Canning: A little surface dust and dirt. Some black spots of foxing on collar, lower face and hair. The occasional small spot of dark foxing elsewhere, and some scattered spots of pale foxing in lower areas. Some small losses to the pastel around the left eye and on lips. A very small indent hole from the back, close to left edge three quarters of the way up. A small dark stain in background closeby. A pin hole at each of the lower corners. A rubbed horizontal line across the top of the work level with the top of the head, probably from mount. Not seen outside of frame.
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Auction: Fine Interiors - Two Day Sale - Live Online, 9th Dec, 2020
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