Ozias Humphry, R.A.

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W.H.T. Ottley,
his sale Christie’s London, 2 May 1961 lot 51
sale, London, Sotheby's, 16 April 2008, lot 17

The miniature maybe connected to a preparatory sketch by Humphry of 'Otley [sic] Esq.' which formed part of lot 400 in a sale held by Sotheby's in 1846 of the collection of the artist's natural child, William Upcott.

The Gentleman's Magazine of October 1775 recorded the sitter's death on 20^th of that month, 'at his home in Argyll St. Richard Ottley, Esq. in the forty-sixth year of his age.'

This miniature is presumably one of those referred to by Humphry in an invoice dated April 1772: 'Mr Otley [sic] for four pictures £50 8s'.