Lot description
GEORGE KNAPTON (1698-1778): PORTRAIT OF THE REVEREND JOHN UPTON OF TAUNTON IN ACADEMIC ROBES Oil on canvas, unsigned, lined, with label from Lane Fine Art, London. 30 x 25 in., 37 x 32 in. (frame). Literature: Sir Ellis Waterhouse, Dictionary of British 19th Century Paintings, illust. p. 200. Provenance: Sold Sotheby''s, London, February 1932, Lot 74; Thence by descent; Lane Fine Art, London.