Possibly Henry Lapostre (1672-1749)
attributed to Balthasar Denner (Hamburg 1685 - Rostock 1749)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1721 - 1727
Materials
Oil on copper
Measurements
490 x 400 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436081
Summary
Oil painting on copper, Possibly Henry Lapostre (1672-1749), attributed to Balthasar Denner (1685-1749). A head-and-shoulders portrait of a mature gentleman, turned to the right, gazing at the spectator, in a powdered wig, wearing a brown coat with gilt buttons and a linen stock. Henry Lapostre was a rich Huguenot. Both Lapostre and Sir John Brownlow, Viscount Tyrconnel (1690-1754) were Common Councilmen of the Georgia Society, whose meeting were regularly reported by the first President of the Society, Lord Egmont, in his Diaries. A Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Pictures....belonging to [Sir Abraham Hume], 1824, p.34, no.110: Portrait of Monsieur L'Apotre. "Denner [dimensions omitted] was paid Fifty Guineas for this picture by the family, a large price in the beginning of the last century. Nothing can exceed the scrupulous attention he bestowed on each part of individual nature." There is no known connection with the Humes. Denner worked in England in 1721-7.
Provenance
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) from Edward John Peregrine Cust, 7th Baron Brownlow, C. St J. (b.1936) in 1984
Credit line
Belton House, The Brownlow Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund by the National Trust in 1984)
Makers and roles
attributed to Balthasar Denner (Hamburg 1685 - Rostock 1749), artist