Josiah Spode I
1 portrait of Josiah Spode I
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Josiah Spode I
by Unknown artist
circa 1790-1795
3 in. x 2 3/8 in. (76 mm x 60 mm) oval
NPG 4586
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Apparently the unique image of Spode I. The identity is based on the provenance, and the apparent age of the sitter in relation to the apparent date of the miniature; the existence of two versions, differing only in detail, in the Spode Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, [1] is also reassuring.
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1) Letter from L. R. Whiter, Spode Museum, 28 September 1967 (NPG archive); one illus. A. Hayden, Spode and his Successors, 1925, f.p.16, and in the Museum guide, Tradition-Spode-Copeland, 1960, pl.7.
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By descent to Josiah Spode IV (d. 1893) of Hawkesyard House1, who bequeathed his estate to the Dominican Order; transferred to Woodchester Priory, whence acquired by B. Weinreb, from whom purchased 1967.2
1 Cf. A. Hayden, Spode and his Successors, 1925, p 19.
2 Provenance from a note supplied by Weinreb in 1967.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.