Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
WILLIAM HICKS HICKS-BEACH (1810-1844).
He was the younger brother of Sir Michael Hicks Hicks Beach, and died unmarried at the age of 33 in 1844; according to a letter to Mrs Emily Susan Hicks Beach from Ellice Hicks Beach, "he strained himself cutting trees in Oakley Park and got, I think, some sort of tumour or internal injury. He was laid up and died in his mother's house in Portman Square [London]".
William was intended to inherit the Great Witcombe estate from his first cousin once removed Lady Ann Cromie [nee Hicks], but predeceased her by forty years. He seems to have been a lively, likeable character, and a talented artist; he frequently drew sketches in his letters to family members and in his travel journals, and painted many watercolour views of the places he visited on a tour of the Mediterranean in 1834.
HENRY CALVERT (1798-1869) was born in Darlton, near Tuxford, Nottinghamshire. He specialised in sporting and animal paintings but was also known a a portraitist, and was listed as such at 104 King's Street, Manchester, in 1855. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1826-1854.
SIZE: 40 x 34 inches including the frame.
PROVENANCE: by direct descent.
Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
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Portrait of William Hicks Hicks-beach 1844, by Henry Calvert.
