Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 14 shown for “John Hoppner” — 62 records examined, 48 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 17:55 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Mrs. Richard Bache (Sarah Franklin, 1743–1808)
John Hoppner · 1793

Richard Bache portrait
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1885

Mrs. Lewis Thomas Watson (Mary Elizabeth Milles, 1767–1818)
Sir Joshua Reynolds · 1789

Richard Bache
John Hoppner, 1758 - 1810 · 1792-93

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790

Irish Gentleman
John Hoppner, English, born London, England 1758-died London, England 1810 · n.d.

Mrs. Abington
John Hoppner, English, born London, England 1758-died London, England 1810 · n.d.

Mrs. O'Hara
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1914

Patience Lovell Wright
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1782

Luther Martin
Bernard Francis Hoppner Meyer, 20 Apr 1811 - 3 Jan 1888 · c. 1835

Osmunda regalis L.
Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1908

Amaranthus albus L.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Sep 1908

Amaranthus albus L.
Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1908

Usnea sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Nov 1981
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 22 matched · 22 examined · 19 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 260345 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 17:55 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.