拍品 144
144
Attributed to Mather Brown (Boston 1761-1831 London)
Attributed to Mather Brown (Boston 1761-1831 London)

Portrait of John Smeaton (1724-1792), three-quarter-length, seated with the Eddystone Lighthouse, Devon in the background

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Attributed to Mather Brown (Boston 1761-1831 London)
Portrait of John Smeaton (1724-1792), three-quarter-length, seated with the Eddystone Lighthouse, Devon in the background
the stretcher with inscription 'Constructor of the Eddystone lighthouse'
oil on canvas
30 x 25 3/8 in. (76.2 x 64.3 cm.)
with an engraving of the same subject, engraved by R. Woodman.
two in the lot (2)

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The prime version of this type appears to have shown a water mill wheel in the background rather than the Eddystone lighthouse. The lighthouse appeared in a later version commissioned from Brown by Alexander Robert who gave the work to the Royal Society (see D. Evans, Mather Brown, Early American Artist in England, Middletown, 1982, pp. 93-95 and 228).