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GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS 1734-1802 KENDAL)

Lot 42
23.05.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 42 | GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS 1734-1802 KENDAL)
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS 1734-1802 KENDAL)

Portrait of Mrs Susannah Whatman (1756-1828), née Bosanquet, half-length, in a painted oval

oil on canvas

30 x 25 1⁄8 in. (76.2 x 63.8 cm.)





Provenance

The sitter, and by descent to,

G.D. Whatman, by 1908.

with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, by 1912.

with Reinhardt Galleries, by 1913.

Dr. Henry Norton Torrey (1880-1945) and Mrs Nell Ford Torrey (1875-1958), Detroit, by 1917, and by descent.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 17 January 1985, lot 141.

with Hirschl & Adler, New York, and with Newhouse Galleries, New York, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

G. Paston, George Romney, London, 1903, p. 199.

H. Ward & W. Roberts, Romney: A Biographical and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonné of his Works, London, II, 1904, p. 170.

A. Chamberlain, George Romney, New York, 1910, p. 306.

T. Balston, James Whatman, Father and Son, London, 1957, p. 48, pl. 5.

G.L. Lee, The Story of the Bosanquets, Canterbury, 1966, p. 101.

International Studio, June, 1928, XC, cover.

A. Kidson, George Romney: A complete catalogue of his paintings, New Haven and London, II, 2015, p. 628, no. 1402, illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Grafton Galleries, Exhibition of a Special Selection from the Works by George Romney, Summer, 1900, no. 38.

London, Agnew's, The [Twelfth] Annual Exhibition on Behalf of the Artists' General Benevolent Fund, 1906, no. 5.

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and Deceased Masters of the British School, Winter, 1908, no. 142.

New York, Reinhardt Galleries, Loan exhibition of paintings from Memling, Holbein and Titian to Renoir and Picasso at the Reinhardt Galleries: in aid of the Greenwich House Health Center, 27 February-17 March 1928, no. 16.
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