23rd Apr, 2024 10:00
A Political Inheritance - The Contents of a Cotswold Country House
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George Romney (1734-1802)
George Romney (1734-1802)
Portrait of Anne Evelyn (1767/8-1790)
half-length, in a white dress with a blue sash
oil on canvas
74cm x 61cm
Provenance:with Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool (1784-1851); with The Hon. Henry Berkeley Portman (1860-1923), later 3rd Viscount Portman; with Emma, Viscountess Portman (1862-1929) by 1926; with her daughter Lady Moyra Dawson-Damer (1897-1962); thence by family descent.
Footnote:Painted in 1788. Mentioned in Lord Hawkesbury's Catalogues of Portraits at Compton Place and at Buxted Park, in Sussex, 1903, p.18, no. 3, at Buxted Park, as in the 'Dining Room, South Wall'.
Further Bibliography:
Gower (R. S.) Romney, London, 1904, p. 175
Kidson (Alex) George Romney, A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015, I, p. 205, no. 422 (illus).
Ward (Humphrey) and Roberts (William) Romney: A Biographical and Critical Essay, London: T Agnew & Sons, 1904, p. 51
Sold for £26,000
George Romney (1734-1802)
Portrait of Anne Evelyn (1767/8-1790)
half-length, in a white dress with a blue sash
oil on canvas
74cm x 61cm
with Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool (1784-1851); with The Hon. Henry Berkeley Portman (1860-1923), later 3rd Viscount Portman; with Emma, Viscountess Portman (1862-1929) by 1926; with her daughter Lady Moyra Dawson-Damer (1897-1962); thence by family descent.
Painted in 1788. Mentioned in Lord Hawkesbury's Catalogues of Portraits at Compton Place and at Buxted Park, in Sussex, 1903, p.18, no. 3, at Buxted Park, as in the 'Dining Room, South Wall'.
Further Bibliography:
Gower (R. S.) Romney, London, 1904, p. 175
Kidson (Alex) George Romney, A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015, I, p. 205, no. 422 (illus).
Ward (Humphrey) and Roberts (William) Romney: A Biographical and Critical Essay, London: T Agnew & Sons, 1904, p. 51
The painting has been restored and relined. The artwork is in good condition overall, with the picture surface stable and some craquelure. UV light examination reveals some in-painting, especially around the sitter's face.
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