ID 791872
Lot 34 | GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS 1734-1802 KENDAL)
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 150 000
Double portrait of two siblings, three-quarter-length, in white dresses and a red and pink sash, in a landscape
oil on canvas
25 1⁄4 x 20 1⁄8 in. (64.1 x 51 cm.)
Provenance
(Possibly) Sophia Woolf (1788-1840), later wife of Joseph Baker Grindon, Uphill Castle, Weston-Super-Mare, and by descent in the family to her great-grandaughter,
Mrs Mathews, Cumberland House, Kew; Christie's, London, 24 February 1939 (64 gns. to Agnew's).
with Agnew's, London, from where acquired in 1942 by the following,
Ernest G. Kleinwort (1901-1977).
with Edward Speelman, London.
with Agnew's, London, by March 1959.
Private collection, UK, and by descent to the present owner.
Literature
J. Watson, George Romney in Canada, exhibition catalogue, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Canada, 1985, p. 34.
A. Kidson, George Romney. A complete catalogue of his paintings, New Haven and London, 2015, II, p. 647, no. 1451, illustrated.
| Artist: | George Romney (1734 - 1802) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | George Romney (1734 - 1802) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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