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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Spring Auction Series
• Sale Date:
  17 Nov 2014 ~ Session 1 (Lots 1 - 219) 10.30am
  17 Nov 2014 ~ Session 2 (Lots 220 - 503) 2pm
  18 Nov 2014 ~ Session 3-7 (Lots 504 - 1129) 10.30am
• Lot #:
  1121
• Lot Description:
  Attributed To Enoch Seeman
  Portrait of William Shippen Esquire MP
  oil on canvas
  126 x 100.5cm
  bears inscription upper right 'William Shippen/Esquire. MP./ Pope's 'Downright Shippen', Born 1672/M.P. for Bramber 1707/A Leader of the Jacobite Party,/committed to the Tower 1717, Died 1743'; bears exhibition label verso
• Provenance:
  F.Laybourne Poppan Private Collection Melbourne
• Exhibited:
  National Portrait Exhibition, 1867 cat G.I (bears label on reverse)
• Notes:
  William Shippen (1673-1745) was a barrister, MP for Newtown, near Warrington, Lancashire, and a well known Augustan wit and poet. A Tory and moderate Jacobite he found himself in opposition to the Hanoverian-Whig government, and in 1717 suggested that a royal speech seemed rather too calculated for the meridian of Germany than of Great Britain, and that the king was a stranger to our language and constitution, for this indiscretion George I had Shippen committed to the Tower of London, winning him immortality in Alexander Pope's "Imitations of Horace" as "downright Shippen'. Sitter is identified by a document on the table in the portrait this work, attributed to the Georgian portraitist Enoch Seeman (1694-1745) was formerly in the collection of the Leybourne-Popham family of Littlecote House Wiltshire, and was included in the encyclopaedic National Portrait Exhibition at South Kensington Museums in 1866-67
• Estimate:
  A$6,000 - 8,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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