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GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS, LANCASHIRE 1734-1802 KENDAL, CUMBRIA)

Lot 188
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Lot 188 | GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS, LANCASHIRE 1734-1802 KENDAL, CUMBRIA)
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$ 20 000 – 30 000
GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS, LANCASHIRE 1734-1802 KENDAL, CUMBRIA)

Portrait of James Cross of Clifton, Bristol (?1739-1791), three-quarter-length, at a table with a landscape beyond

oil on canvas

50 ¼ x 40 ¼ in. (127.5 x 102.2 cm.)





Provenance

By descent in the sitter’s family.

Professor Joyce, from whom acquired in 1913 by,

with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London.

with Arthur Joseph Sulley, London.

with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London.

with Arthur Joseph Sulley, London.

with Knoedler & Co., New York, by 1927.

Private collection, New York.

Anonymous sale; Parke-Bernet, New York, 17 February 1944, lot 82.

with Knoedler & Co., New York, where acquired in 1946 by the following,

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, deaccessioned in November 1956, through the following,

with Knoedler & Co., New York.

Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 17 March 1978, lot 86.

with Elwes & Hanham, London, by 1999.

Private collection, England.



Literature

H. Ward and W. Roberts, Romney: a biographical and critical essay, I, 1904, p. 101; II, p. 36.

'A Romney Portrait,' The Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, XXXV, 1946, pp. 129-131, illustrated on the cover.

H. Comstock, 'The Connoisseur in America,' The Connoisseur, CXIX, 1947, pp. 108-109, illustrated.

A. Kidson, George Romney: A complete catalogue of his paintings, I, New Haven and London, 2015, pp. 156-157, no. 308, illustrated.



Exhibited

Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, A Loan Exhibition of Portraits, 7 October-6 November 1927, no. 103.

Saint Paul, MN, The Minnesota State Fair, 28 August-6 September 1954.
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