Julius Caesar Ibbetson ( 1759 - 1817 )
John Smith, the blind harper of Conway, with penillion singers
John Smith, the blind harper of Conway, with penillion singers
oil on canvas,
signed and dated 1793
with eighteenth century carved and gilded ‘semi-Carlo’ frame
Sold to The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
item sold
Provenance:
(possibly) Princess Elizabeth (1770-1840), third daughter of George III,
later Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg;
Dr. von Boettinger, Elberfeld;
D.Heinemann, Munich;
Sotheby’s, 4th April 1973, lot 41, £ 6,400 to John Mitchell & Son;
private collection England by 1974
Literature:
R.M.Clay, Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1948), p.34 & 110;
J.Mitchell, Julius Caesar Ibbetson (1999), p.34 (illus.)
Exhibition:
1793, London, Royal Academy, no. 91;
1908, Berlin, Old English Art Exhibition