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John Hoppner (artist)
British, 1758 - 1810
The Hoppner Children, 1791
oil on canvas
overall: 152.5 x 127 cm (60 1/16 x 50 in.)
Widener Collection
1942.9.35
From the Tour: British and American Grand Manner Portraits of the 1700s
Object 5 of 12

1909McKay, William and William Roberts. John Hoppner, R.A. London, 1909: 127-128, 316, 336, repro. opp. 130; Supplement, 1914.
1915Widener 1915, unpaginated, repro.
1923Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1923 (unpaginated) unpaginated, repro.
1931Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1931: 18, repro.
1939Tietze, Hans. Masterpieces of European Painting in America. London, 1939: 325, repro. 233.
1942Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 5.
1948Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 91, repro.
1960Cooke, Hereward Lester. British Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1960 (Booklet Number Eight in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 18, color repro.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 320, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 70
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 61, repro.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 178, repro.
1975Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: no. 519, color repro.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 365, no. 513, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 207, repro.
1991Wilson, John Human. "The Life and Art of John Hoppner (1758-1810)." Ph.D. diss., Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1991.
1992Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 130-133, repro. 133.

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