File:The Connoisseur, a Capriccio Painting with Connoisseurs Admiring Thomas Hope's Antique Sculpturers Signed and Dated Michael William Sharp 1811 (c) Phillips.jpg

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English: In Regency England during the year 1811, Michael William Sharp, a prominent portrait painter and former student of the famous Royal Artist, Sir William Beechey painted a group portrait featuring Thomas Hope, his wife Louisa, John Kemble, and other notable members of the Drury Lane Theater Company shown together admiring two of Hope's most famous antique sculptures. Painted in 1811, it was first exhibited at the Annual Exhibition of British Artists in the Gallery of the British Institution in Pall Mall, London in 1812.
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Source Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg Auction House Catalogue, The John Hobbs Collection New York Part I 2002
Author Phillips Catalogue Photographer, John Hammond (photograph) ; Michael William Sharp (painting)

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Michael Sharp's Capriccio Painting of Thomas Hope's Duchess Street residence, Purchased by George Spencer-Churchill at the 1812 Annual British Institiution Art Exhibition in Pall Mall, London

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