Richard Newman (English cricketer)

The family lived at Hacton House close to Hornchurch in Essex, but he was baptised at Croydon in Surrey in May 1757.

[1][2] Benjamin Harding owned 336 acres (136 ha) of land in Hanover Parish on Jamaica, made up of two plantations at Blue Hole and Newman Hall which produced sugar, rum and molasses.

Harding Newman inherited a third-share in the estates alongside his brothers John and Benjamin, following their father's death in 1766.

[1][2] Harriet was the daughter of Francis Schütz of Gillingham Hall in Norfolk, the third-cousin of Frederick, Prince of Wales.

[d][11][12] His son, Thomas, inherited his Essex estates as well as the slave estates in Jamaica;[1][9] when he remarried in 1818 Thomas' second wife, Eliza Hall, may have received The Rice portrait, possibly of a young Jane Austen, as a wedding present.

[9][19][20] Harding Newman's other son Benjamin served in the British Army, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel.

The painting remained in the family until 1890 and was later owned by Alfred de Rothschild and then by Michael Arthur Bass.

It was sold in 2014 at Christie's for £194,500 and is considered "a characteristic work of the period" which displays "bravura brushwork [which] is combined with passages of masterfully subtle observation".