Thomas Hickey (Dublin 1741-1824 Madras)
Portrait of John George Livius, half-length, in a dark blue coat with gold trim
indistinctly signed and dated 'T. Hi****/ 1782' (lower left)
oil on canvas, oval
26.9 x 21.2cm (10 9/16 x 8 3/8in).
Footnotes:
Provenance
Colonel O.G. Body, DSO, Salisbury
Private Collection, UK

Exhibited
Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, London, National Portrait Gallery and Belfast, Ulster Museum, Irish Portraits 1660-1860, 14 August - 9 March 1969-70, cat. no. 70

Literature
A. Crookshank and the Knight of Glin, Irish Portraits 1660-1860, exh. cat., London, 1969, p. 55, cat. no. 70

John George Livius served with the East India Company from 1772, when he arrived as a writer, until 1782, when he finished as a Junior Merchant the same year as this portrait was painted.