John Granville

John Hoppner English, 1758-1810

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About the Artwork

John Granville

between 1790 and 1795

John Hoppner

1758-1810

English

Unknown

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)

Paintings

European Painting

Bequest of Eleanor Clay Ford

77.8

This work is in the 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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Published References

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, unpaginated, no. 102 (ill.).

City of Detroit. "Arts Department," Journal of the City Council (May 5, 1977): pp. 1060–1061, p. 1060.

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.

John Granville
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