Joseph Blackburn
Probably born and died in England.
Active 1752–77.

Hugh Jones, 1777¹
Oil on canvas
50 1/2 x 40 1/8 in. (128.3 x 101.9 cm)
Museum purchase, 1962.21

On front edge of the top sheet of stacked papers, in black paint: perhaps "Oct[ober] 10 [or 18 or 19]."

On document on stack on table, in black paint: "To/Charles Morgan Es."

On spine of book resting on table, in black paint: "Abstracts of Ruperra/Rentalls/From y^e year/1725 to Octob/24^th—1777."

On verso, on a paper label adhered to the canvas at b.l., in ink: "Hugh Jones Esq^r 50 Years/Agent to the Family/of Tredegar & Ruperra/Ob^t Oct^r—1777 —Aged 79/belongd to Ruperra Aug^t 16^th 1783" surrounded by a border drawn in ink.

Provenance
Charles Morgan (1736–1787); to his brother John Morgan (1741/42–1792); to his sister Jane Morgan (1731–1797) and her husband, Sir Charles Gould (1726–1806), who took the name Morgan; to their son Sir Charles Morgan (1760–1846); to his son Sir Charles Morgan Robinson, 1^st Baron Tredegar (1792–1883); to his son Godfrey Charles, 2^nd Baron Tredegar (1831–1913); to his nephew Courtenay Charles Evan, 3^rd Baron Tredegar (1867–1934); to his son Evan Frederic, 4^th Baron Tredegar (1893–1949); to his son Frederick George, 5^th Baron Tredegar (1873–1954); to his son (Frederic Charles) John, 6^th Baron Tredegar, 6^th and last Baron Tredegar (1908–1962). Sold at Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd., London, October 20, 1961, to "Nicholls." Purchased from Julius H. Weitzner, 958 Madison Ave., New York, and 10 Farm Street, London.²

References
Pictures of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries from Various Sources (London: Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd., October 20, 1961), cat. no. 2, p. [3].

Steegman II, 1962, 165 and plate 31B.

Worcester Annual Report 1962, x, xiii.

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, April–June, 1962," The Art Quarterly 25, no. 3 (autumn 1962): 263, 268.

"La Chronique des Arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 161, no. 1129 (February 1963): 67.

Dresser 1966a, fig. 13, 41–42, 47–49.

Dresser 1971, 477.

Reutlinger 1975, 18, 19.

Miles 1995, 11.

Exhibition
The Colonial Epoch in America, Worcester Art Museum, April 18, 1975–January 4, 1976, cat. pp. 18, 19.

Notes
1. This painting also has been published as: Dr. Charles Gould (Steegman II, 1962, 165 and plate 31B); and Portrait of Hugh Jones (Pictures of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries from Various Sources [London: Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd., October 20, 1961], cat. no. 2, p. [3]).

2. The line of descent is inferred from the descent of the Tredegar seat in the Morgan family. For the Morgan line, see Burke and Burke 1956, 2170–72. For the sale at auction, see Pictures of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries . . ., cat. no. 2, p. [3]. For the Museum’s purchase, see receipt, Julius H. Weitzner to the Worcester Art Museum, May 31, 1962, object file, Worcester Art Museum.