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John Michael Wright
Randolph the John Corbet, Sons of Sir John Corbet, ca 1685
These two young men were the sons of Sir John Corbet, third baroner of Stoke and Adderley, who was a prominent Shropshire landowner in England's West Midlands. They are shown playing bowls in an elaborate, thought likely imaginary, 17th-century garden complete with statuary.
Compare these carefree aristocratic boys with the dutiful six-year-old in Ludolf de Jongh's A Young Boy, also on view in this gallery. |