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Portrait of Lady Redesdale
John Hoppner (British, 1758–1810)
Title
Portrait of Lady Redesdale
Artist
John Hoppner (British, 1758–1810)
Date
c. 1803
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
36 1/4 × 28 3/8 in. (92.1 × 72.1 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Gift of Jay A. Cherniack and Helen Wessel Cherniack
Object Number
1995.25
On View
On view
Provenance
Commissioned by Thomas Walpole (1755–1840), Surrey, England, around 1803–1901 [1];
His gift to his grandson Henry Spencer Vade Walpole, Esq. (1837–1913), Kensington, London, by 1901–11 [2];
With Knoedler Galleries, London, for exhibition, October–November 1911, no. 2 [3].
Vade Walpole Collection, after 1913.
With Hirschel & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, after 1952;
Their sale to Jay A. Cherniack (1899–1973) and Helen Wessel Cherniack (1911–1995), Omaha, Nebraska, March 24, 1966–1995;
By descent to their daughter Mrs. Lisbeth Cherniak Stiffel, Omaha, Nebraska, March, 1995;
Her Gift in the name of her parents to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1995.
[1] The portrait of Lady Redesdale (born Frances Perceval) was commissioned as a pendant portrait to a portrait of her sister Margaret Perceval Walpole (1769–1854). Melinda R. McCurdy “John Hoppner, Portrait of Lady Redesdale, c. 1803” in European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum, ed. Taylor J. Acosta (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 128.
[2] See note containing an excerpt of letter from H.S. Vade Walpole, Esq., 16 November 1901; William Darling McKay and W. Roberts, John Hoppner, R.A. (London: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., 1909), 260–261.
[3] Lot no. 2 in Exhibition of English Masters (On Behalf of the National Loan Exhibition Fund) at the Galleries of M. Knoedler & CO. 15 Old Bond Street, W. (London: Knoedler & Co., 1911), 3.
Exhibition History
John Hoppner, R.A., P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1909.
Exhibition of English Masters (On Behalf of the National Loan Exhibition Fund), Galleries of M. Knoedler & Co., London, October–November 1911.
Published References
William Darling McKay and W. Roberts, John Hoppner, R.A. (London: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., 1909), 215, 260, 261.
Exhibition of English Masters (On Behalf of the National Loan Exhibition Fund) at the Galleries of M. Knoedler & Co. 15 Old Bond Street, W. (London: Knoedler & Co., 1911), 3.
Hans Vollmer, ed., Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kunstler: von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, vol. 17, Heubel–Hubard (Leipzig, Germany: Seemann, 1924), 492, 497.
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 128–29, (repro.).
