Catalogue No.	9
	Artist	English School Circle of JOHN HOPPNER
	Period	Early 19th C
	Title	An Unknown Man
	Media/Size	Oil on canvas 29.5 x 24.5 ins
	Collection Details 1st Lord Faringdon; previous history unrecorded but possibly the picture with Gooden in 1890 (see below). Literature T Borenius, Peinture Anglaise au XVIIIme Siècle, 1939, Pl. 57. Exhibition Details Cirencester, Coronation Exhibition, 1953. Background Formerly said to be a portrait of William Wilberforce by Romney. Neither of these assertions can be upheld. The engraved portrait (1792) by Rising of Wilberforce as a young man shows a different sitter, and the fluid, almost watercolour manner in which this painting is executed, is totally unrelated to the crisp and broadly modelled style of Romney. It is, if anything, more reminiscent of Hoppner. Ward and Roberts (Romney, 1904, vol. ii, p. 171) record a portrait of Wilberforce attributed to Romney, which was sold at Christie’s, 28 June 1890, lot 107, and bought by Gooden. << Back to Page 1     Copyright © The Trustees of the Faringdon Collection 1999. All rights reserved.