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| | Portrait of an Elegant Lady,John Hoppner |
 | | His earliest love was for landscape, but necessity obliged him to turn to the more lucrative business of portrait painting, once successful, he had, throughout life, the most fashionable and wealthy sitters, and was the greatest rival of the growing attraction of Lawrence. |
 | | Ideal subjects were very rarely attempted by Hoppner, though a Sleeping Venus, Belisarius, Jupiter and 10, a Bacchante and Cupid and Psyche are mentioned among his works. |
 | | In his later years Hoppner suffered from a chronic disease of the liver; he died on the 23rd of January 1810, He was confessedly an imitator of Reynolds. |
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