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| Keywords: Sir Brooke Boothby Joseph Wright.jpg Artwork Creator Joseph Wright of Derby Sir Brooke Boothby 6th Baronet Sir Brooke Boothby was a minor poet and landowner in Derbyshire He was part of the many people in the intellectual circles of Lichfield who welcomed Jean-Jacques Rousseau to England in 1766-7 After his return from exile Boothby visited Rousseau in Paris where he obtained a copy of his autobiography Boothby was instrumental in the book being published in Lichfield in 1780 after the authors death Many well-off people had their portraits rendered by Joseph Wright of Derby and Boothby's unusual portrait shows a copy of that book 1781 Oil on canvas cm 148 6 207 6 institution Tate Britain On loan to Pinacoteca do Estado São Paulo Brazil accession number N04132 object history credit line Bequeathed by Miss Agnes Ann Best 1925 exhibition history http //www tate org uk/art/artworks/wright-sir-brooke-boothby-n04132 Tate Britain online collection <gallery>Bboothby jpg</gallery> PD-old-100 Portrait paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby Portrait paintings in Tate Britain Paintings in the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo Sir Brooke Boothby 1781 portrait paintings from Great Britain Male 18th-century oil paintings of recumbent men at full length 1781 18th-century oil portraits of men at full length 18th-century portrait paintings in the United Kingdom 18th-century promenade portraits British promenade portraits Paintings of recumbent men outdoors Portrait paintings of men wearing hats Portrait paintings of men with books Portrait paintings of recumbent men | ||||
