Lot 350: John Bewick (1795-1866)

Portrait of the Hon. and Right Reverend Henry Montague Villiers, Bishop of Durham (1813-1861) in clerics robes
inscribed 'This portrait of the Hon. and Right Reverend/H. Montague Villiers, Bishop of Durham./Copies from the original picture at Auckland Castle/and presented to his daughter Mrs Cheese./by William Bewick 1863' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
36 x 30 in. (91.4 x 76.2 cm.)

Bewick studied under B. R. Haydon and at the R.A. Schools. He exhibited widely and established successive portrait practises in Darlington, Glasgow and Dublin. He lived in Italy for four years, where he made sketches of the Sistine Chapel for Sir Thomas Lawrence. He returned to England and re-established himself as a portrait painter, his more notable commissions included a portrait of Daniel Maclise R.A.

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