Portrait of Peter John Fremeaux
John Astley (Wem/Shropshire 1724 - Duckenfield/Cheshire 1787)
Lot-No. 32
Oil/canvas, 126 x 101 cm, on the stretcher label of the "Northhampton Art Gallery County Exhibition" of 1935, as Thomas Gainsborough, min. rest., relined. - Prof. Brian Allen a. Hugh Belsey, Paul Mellon Institute of British Art, have kindly identified the artist. - Prov.: James Fremeaux of Kingsthorpe, until 1799; Thomas Reeve Thornton, Kingsthorpe Hall until 1862; Kingsthorpe Hall, Familie Thornton of Kingsthorpe. - Peter John Fremeaux was a South English squire a. important merchant with the Middle East. - English Portrait painter, together with J. Reynolds pupil in the studio of Th. Hudson, in 1474 he moved to Rome to the studio of P. Batoni, in the 1750s he opened his own studio for portrait painting in London that was soon very successful, his marriage in the early 1760s made him indipendent in terms of money, he ceased painting a. turned to philantropical activities. - Mus.: London (British Mus.), Brussels, Belfast. - Lit.: Saur, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.
John Astley: Portrait of Peter John Fremeaux
John Astley (Wem/Shropshire 1724 - Duckenfield/Cheshire 1787)
Portrait of Peter John Fremeaux
Lot-No. 32
Oil/canvas, 126 x 101 cm, on the stretcher label of the "Northhampton Art Gallery County Exhibition" of 1935, as Thomas Gainsborough, min. rest., relined. - Prof. Brian Allen a. Hugh Belsey, Paul Mellon Institute of British Art, have kindly identified the artist. - Prov.: James Fremeaux of Kingsthorpe, until 1799; Thomas Reeve Thornton, Kingsthorpe Hall until 1862; Kingsthorpe Hall, Familie Thornton of Kingsthorpe. - Peter John Fremeaux was a South English squire a. important merchant with the Middle East. - English Portrait painter, together with J. Reynolds pupil in the studio of Th. Hudson, in 1474 he moved to Rome to the studio of P. Batoni, in the 1750s he opened his own studio for portrait painting in London that was soon very successful, his marriage in the early 1760s made him indipendent in terms of money, he ceased painting a. turned to philantropical activities. - Mus.: London (British Mus.), Brussels, Belfast. - Lit.: Saur, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.