Portrait of Colonel Charles Heathcote

Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Colonel Charles Heathcote

Joseph Wright of DerbyLinkedCulture matchlcp-ea62b2d3f5d9

Date
c. 1771–72
Medium
Oil on canvas
Culture
England
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
302209

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Assuming a relaxed but commanding pose, Colonel Charles Heathcote (1734–1797) stands beside a large oak tree in the foreground of an expansive landscape. He wears military dress, the single epaulette on his right shoulder designating his rank as colonel. Wright’s composition demonstrates his new-found fascination with landscape: while the figure is relatively smoothly painted, the landscape is painted far more energetically, using thickly applied daubs of color. The handful of small-scale, full-length portraits Wright painted early in his career include his earliest experiments in landscape painting.

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Credit line
John L. Severance Fund
Provenance
c. 1771-2 - 1985: Colonel Charles Heathcote (1730–1803) and by descent | (Christie's, London, April 26, 1985, no. 113) | Private Collection, USA | 1997: (Sotheby's, London, November 12, 1997, no. 69) | 1999: (Sotheby's, London, June 8, 1999, no. 13) | 2011: (Christie's, New York, January 26, 2011, no. 35) | 2011 - 2017: Private Collection | 2017: (Thos. Agnew and Sons Ltd., London, from whom purchased by the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 2017-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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