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

Lot 188
21.05.2025 13:00UTC -04:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 60 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
ID 1436568
Lot 188 | GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS, LANCASHIRE 1734-1802 KENDAL, CUMBRIA)
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 80 000
GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS, LANCASHIRE 1734-1802 KENDAL, CUMBRIA)
Portrait of Francis Lind (1752/3-1840), three-quarter-length, seated at a window, a one-keyed Simpson ivory flute in his right hand
oil on canvas
49 ¾ x 40 in. (126.3 x 101.7 cm.)
in a contemporary Maratta frame




Provenance

Painted for the sitter’s mother, Elizabeth Lind, née Farrer, and by inheritance to the sitter’s niece,
Elizabeth Lind, wife of George Denys, and by descent to their daughter,
Juliana Louisa Denys, wife of Arthur Montagu, and by descent to their son,
Leopold Agar Denys Montague (1861-1940), and by descent until,
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 13 June 1994, lot 54.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 26 November 2003, lot 6, where acquired by the following,
Private collection, Europe, and by whom sold,
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 July 2017, lot 169.
Private collection, New York.



Literature

H. Ward & W. Roberts, Romney. A Biographical and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonné of his Works, II, London, 1904, p. 95.
M. Pastoureau, Green: The History of a Color, Princeton, 2013, p. 169, illustrated.
A. Kidson, George Romney, A complete catalogue of his paintings, II, New Haven and London, 2015, pp. 367-68, no. 803.
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