The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma
The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma
John Singleton Copley, R.A.
Portrait study of Norton Joseph Knatchbull (1783-1801), bust-length, wearing a blue coat
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John Singleton Copley, R.A.
Boston 1738 - 1815 London
Portrait study of Norton Joseph Knatchbull (1783-1801), bust-length, wearing a blue coat
oil on canvas, oval
54.7 x 44.7 cm.
Sir Edward Knatchbull, 8th Bt. (1760-1819);
Thence by descent.
Thence by descent.
Catalogue of Portraits, 1920, no. 55;
J.D. Prown, John Singleton Copley, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1966, vol. II, pp. 361-71, and 424, reproduced fig. 640.
J.D. Prown, John Singleton Copley, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1966, vol. II, pp. 361-71, and 424, reproduced fig. 640.
A sketch for the large family group portrait of 1800-03 (see lot 170). Norton Joseph Knatchbull was the second son of Sir Edward Knatchbull and Mary Hugessen. He was an officer in the navy and died at Plymouth on 17th March 1804, aged 18.