Lot 221: James Green (Essex 1771-1834 Bath)

James Green (Essex 1771-1834 Bath)
Portrait of Mrs. Burton of Lincoln, full-length, holding a parasol, in a classical landscape
pencil and watercolour with scratching out on paper
22½ x 16¾ in. (57.5 x 42.5 cm.)

The sitter and by descent to Sir Richard Vincent Sutton, 6th Bt. (1891-1918).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 26 January 1971, lot 60.
with The Fine Art Society, London.

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The sitter married Benjamin Burton of Burton Hall, County Carlow, Ireland, who was a second cousin of the 2nd Marquess Conyngham. Their daughter, Mary Elizabeth Burton (1797-1842), married Sir Richard Sutton, Bt. (1798-1855) of Norwood Park, Nottinghamshire in 1891.
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Green entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1791 where he was noticed by Sir Joshua Reynolds who allowed him to copy many of his pictures. This led to his becoming a popular portrait painter in London during the early 19th century. In 1805 he was married to Mary Byrne, a well-known miniature painter who, like her husband, exhibited at the Royal Academy, The Society of British Artists and The British Institution. A number of Green's portraits are held in public institutions such as Benjamin West, President of the Royal Academy (Metropolitan Museum, New York) and Thomas Stothard, R.A. (National Portrait Gallery, London).