About the Artwork
John Granville
between 1790 and 1795
John Hoppner
1758-1810
English
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Oil on canvas
Unframed: 30 × 25 inches (76.2 × 63.5 cm) Framed: 41 1/4 × 36 × 4 inches (104.8 × 91.4 × 10.2 cm)
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European Painting
Bequest of Eleanor Clay Ford
77.8
Public Domain
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Provenance
collection of Colonel Bernard Granville, D.S.O. (Chadley, Wellesbourne, Warwickshire, London);(Duveen Brothers Inc., New York, New York, USA);
1928, purchased by Mr. & Mrs. Edsel Ford (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA);
by descent to Eleanor Clay Ford (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA);
1977-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Granville, Roger. History of the Granville Family. Exeter, 1895, p. 462 (ill.).
McKay, William, and W. Roberts. John Hoppner, R.A. London, 1909, p. 105.
Kay, H. Isherwood. "John Hoppner (1758–1810)." In Unknown Masterpieces, Wilheim R. Valentiner, ed. London, 1930, no. 102 (ill.).
"Arts Department." Journal of the City Council (May 5, 1977): pp. 1060-1061 [city of Detroit].
Mosby, Dewey F. "Curatorial Reports: Department of European Art." Bulletin of the DIA 56, no. 1 (1977): pp. 23-27; pp. 24, 27.
Buren, Geneviéve. "Autres Acquisitions ou dons Récents." La Chronique des Arts 91, no. 1310 (March 1978): pp. 91-98; p. 95.
Waterhouse, Ellis. "Three British Portraits." Bulletin of the DIA 57, no. 1 (1979): pp. 40-45; p. 43 (ill.).
Strong, Roy. The British Portrait: 1660–1960. Woodbridge, 1991, pp. 268-269, no. 255 [as by William Beechey].
Granville, Richard. The Granvilles & The Grenvilles: Their Portraits and Their History. Exeter, 2018, p. 129 (fig. 95).
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John Hoppner, John Granville, between 1790 and 1795, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Eleanor Clay Ford, 77.8.
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