Poppy Harvey-Jones
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Lot 25TP
Attributed to Philip Reinagle(?Edinburgh 1749-1833 Chelsea)Portrait of Molyneux Nepean, later 2nd Bt., and his sister in a landscape with a dog and birds
7 July 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £19,000 inc. premium
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Attributed to Philip Reinagle (?Edinburgh 1749-1833 Chelsea)
Portrait of Molyneux Nepean, later 2nd Bt., and his sister in a landscape with a dog and birds
oil on canvas
127.2 x 101.8cm (50 1/16 x 40 1/16in).
oil on canvas
127.2 x 101.8cm (50 1/16 x 40 1/16in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Sir Molyneux Nepean, 3rd Bt., before 1883
With Gooden & Fox Ltd., London (according to a label on the reverse)
Private Collection, UK
Exhibited
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Scottish Loan Exhibition, Works of Old Masters and Scottish National Portraits, 1883, cat. no. 93 (as Attributed to T. Gainsborough, lent by Sir M.H. Nepean Bt.)
The present work depicts Molyneux Hyde Nepean (1783-1856), the eldest son of Sir Evan Nepean, 1st Bt. and his wife Margaret Skinner, and one of his sisters, possibly Harriet (d. 1875). He married twice: first to Charlotte Tilghman in 1813 and had three sons and three daughters, the eldest of whom succeeded his father in title and lent the present work to the 1883 exhibition; and secondly, in 1852, to Lydia Clark Wright, with whom he had one daughter.
Molyneux, who succeeded his father as 2nd Baronet of Bothenhampton in October 1822, was clerk of the Supreme Court of Jamaica for 30 years and a keen cricketer and member of Marylebone Cricket Club. Notable places and landmarks are named after the Nepean family, including the Nepean River and the Nepean Highway, both in Australia.