GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS, LANCASHIRE 1734-1802 KENDAL, CUMBRIA) - photo 1
GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS, LANCASHIRE 1734-1802 KENDAL, CUMBRIA) - photo 2
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GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS, LANCASHIRE 1734-1802 KENDAL, CUMBRIA)

Lot 429
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Lot 429 | GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS, LANCASHIRE 1734-1802 KENDAL, CUMBRIA)
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS, LANCASHIRE 1734-1802 KENDAL, CUMBRIA)
Portrait of Hester, Lady Lushington, née Boldero (1753-1830), three-quarter length, in a white dress and seated in a landscape
oil on canvas
50 ¼ x 40 1/8 in. (127.6 x 101.9 cm.)




Provenance

Henri Louis Bischoffsheim (1828-1908), Bute House, South Audley Street, London, by 1902; his deceased sale, Christie’s, London, 7 May 1926, lot 85, for 8,300 gns. to Sampson.
with Howard Young, New York by 1928.
Matilda Dodge Wilson, Meadowbrook Hall, Rochester, Michigan, by whose estate sold,
[Property of the Estate of Matilda R. Wilson, deceased Meadowbrook Hall, Rochester, Michigan]; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 22 October 1970, lot 91,
Acquired by Russell Barnett Aitken (1910-2002) and Annie-Laurie Aiken, née Warmack (1900-1984) from the above.



Literature

Sir H. Maxwell, George Romney, London and New York, 1902, p. 183, no. 247.
Lord R.S. Gower, George Romney, London, 1904, p. 121, no. 247.
H. Ward and W. Roberts, Romney: A Biographical and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonné of his Works, London, 1904, I, pp. 106, 117-119 and 125, II, p. 97.
H.C. Marillier, 'Fifty Years of Art Sales', Art News, XXV, no. 32, 14 May 1927, p. 22 and 26, illustrated.
J.C. Watson, George Romney in Canada, exhibition catalogue, Ontario, 1985, p. 76, under no. 32, fig. 23.
M. Secrest, Duveen: a life in art, New York, 2004, pp. 126-128.
A. Kidson, George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, II, New Haven and London, 2015, p. 375, no. 820, illustrated.
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