Lot 105: A PAIR OF ENGLISH PORCELAIN RECTANGULAR PORTRAIT PLAQUES OF JOSEPH MOORE DATED 1825

inscribed on reverse, 'Joseph Moore A.M MD, painted by W.Corden, 51 Oxford St., April 1825' and ' Joseph Moore Esq., Plymouth, aged 72 years, April 1825, painted by W.Corden, 51, Oxford Street.

painted by William Corden, each seated before red drapery

15 by 12.75cm., 6 by 5in., framed

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Joseph Moore senior is recorded as a Shipbuilder of Plymouth, Devon. His son, also Joseph, is recorded as a Doctor of Medicine practising in Middlesex.

William Corden (1797-1857), was born in Ashbourne in Derbyshire and worked for the Derby factory from 1811 to about 1825. On leaving Derby he set himself up as a portrait painter in London with some success, exhibiting at the Royal Academy for the first time in 1826.