Portrait of Dr. Thomas Monro (1759-1833)

Name: JOHN DOWNMAN, A.R.A. (PROBABLY RUABON, WALES 1750-1824 WREXHAM)
Brand: Portrait of Dr. Thomas Monro (1759-1833)
Price: 3500.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 4,410

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GBP 3,000 - GBP 5,000

Closed: 24 Mar 2022

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JOHN DOWNMAN, A.R.A. (PROBABLY RUABON, WALES 1750-1824 WREXHAM)

Portrait of Dr. Thomas Monro (1759-1833)

Price Realised GBP 4,410

Closed: 24 Mar 2022

Price Realised GBP 4,410

Closed: 24 Mar 2022

JOHN DOWNMAN, A.R.A. (PROBABLY RUABON, WALES 1750-1824 WREXHAM)
Portrait of Dr. Thomas Monro (1759-1833)
signed, inscribed and dated 'JDownman/ 1788/ unfinished' (centre left)
pencil, watercolour and stump on paper
8⁷⁄₈ x 6⁷⁄₈ in. (22.6 x 17.5 cm.)

By descent in the Monro family until
Ewbank's, Surrey, 11 December 2013, lot 1149.

London, Martyn Gregory, British Watercolours and Drawings 1750-1900, cat. 95, May 2016, no. 29.

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Lot Essay

This portrait dates from the year after Thomas Monro graduated as MD in May 1787, and three years before he became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1791. Monro inherited his passion for art, and the beginnings of his collection, from his father, also a physician. He is now best known for his school for watercolourists at Adelphi Terrace, at which both Thomas Girtin and J.M.W. Turner studied, founded in 1793. The relatively early date of this drawing in relation to Monro's journey through the art world suggests that it may well have been commissioned by his father.