John Opie RA (1761-1807)

John Opie RA (1761-1807)
Portrait of John Eastman Hancock (1755-1832), half-length, wearing a brown coat and striped waistcoat, seated next to a table holding a letter
Oil on canvas
76.8 x 63.5cm; 30¼ x 25in

Provenance:
Mr Danby P. Fry, great nephew of the sitter by 1878;
Talbot Fry Dobson by 1911;
Spink, London

Literature:
John Jope Rogers, Opie and his Works (London, 1878), pp.104-105;
Ada Ealand, John Opie and his Circle (Hutchinson & Company, 1911), p.282