Lot 32: Portrait of Peter John Fremeaux

Astley John Wem/Shropshire 1724 - Duckenfield/Cheshire 1787 Portrait of Peter John Fremeaux Oil/canvas, 126 x 101 cm, on the stretcher label of the 'Northhampton Art Gallery County Exhibition' of 1935, as Thomas Gainsborough, min. rest., relined. - Prof. Brian Allen a. Hugh Belsey, Paul Mellon Institute of British Art, have kindly identified the artist. - Prov.: James Fremeaux of Kingsthorpe, until 1799; Thomas Reeve Thornton, Kingsthorpe Hall until 1862; Kingsthorpe Hall, Familie Thornton of Kingsthorpe. - Mus.: London (British Mus.), Brussels, Belfast. - Lit.: Saur, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.