Portrait of John Ives (1718?-1793)
Painted by the artist John Theodore Heins (1697-1756)
Noted in 'The Perlustration of Great Yarmouth (Vol II p 62)', John Ives, the son of a very successful merchant, had a curious full-length portrait painted when a boy in 1728 by Heins.
John Ives Senior as a boy (b.1718/19 d.1793); wearing early eighteenth century dress comprising pink coat, white shirt and stockings, black shoes with siver buckles; he is draped in a blue cloak held on his right shoulder with a silver clasp and at his hip by his right hand; his left arm is extended with finger pointing; an archway and balustraded stairway is indicated in the background; a whippet-like dog stares up at him from the right of the picture. Signed and dated Heins Fec 1728. 126cm x 102cm.
Now in the Norwich Museum Collection, www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk
If you have any further information about John Ives or his family I would be very pleased to hear from you. Please contact me on jj@jjhc.info