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English Old MasterHuge Antique English Aristocratic Portrait of Baronet, Fine Ancestral Portrait18th century
18th century
About the Item
English School, 18th/ 19th century
Portrait of Sir Wolstan Dixie, 4th Baronet *see notes below on sitter
oil painting on canvas, unframed
50 x 40 inches
condition: the painting is in very satisfactory condition without any damage, tears or punctures to the canvas. It is very original and would benefit from a clean ideally, slight scuffing to the edges of canvas.
provenance: private collection, Leicestershire, England
* The sitter is Sir Wolstan Dixie (4th Baronet, born 1700). Although the family came from a yeoman family of Huntingdonshire, his ancestor, also Sir Wolstan, made a fortune in the City as a merchant, and served as Lord Mayor of London in 1585-6, Sir Wolstan (the 1st Baronet) acquired the manor of Market Bosworth in west Leicestershire and in 1592, having no children of his own, entailed Market Bosworth and other lands on his nephew, whose ‘custody and education’ he entrusted to his widow.
The 4th Baronet was born at the family home, Bosworth Hall, Leicestershire, in 1700. Sir Wolstan was a somewhat colourful character and stories, real and spurious abound. In 1732 he appointed Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) to a position of school usher, James Boswell, Johnson's friend and biographer, records that Johnson became "a kind of domestick chaplain, so far at least, as to say grace at table, but was treated with what he represented as intolerable harshness; and, after suffering for a few months such complicated misery, he relinquished a situation for which all his life afterwards he recollected with the strongest aversion.".
- Creator:English Old Master (British)
- Creation Year:18th century
- Dimensions:Height: 50 in (127 cm)Width: 40 in (101.6 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Cirencester, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU509311066802
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