£200 - £300
A grained rosewood bergère, early 19th c, on sabre legs and brass castors, later leatherette upholstery, seat height 43cm h, accompanied by a contemporary portrait of a cleric, erroneously identified as the Rev. Francis Russell Nixon (1803-1879), half-length, seated in the aforementioned chair, indistinctly signed, dated 1820, pencil and wash, 16 x 12cm, (2)
Provenance: By descent in the Wellesley & Calthrop families, current vendors.
The traditional attribution might be a case of mistaken identity over the two Reverend Nixons, the father Robert (1758-1837) and the son Francis (1803-1879), the first Colonial Anglican bishop of Tasmania and a pioneering artist-photographer. If the latter, there is a good chance the chair and portrait descended to his son, an only child, who himself died without offspring.
Frame of chair solid, upholstery splitting and in need of attention
Some discolouration to portait
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