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SIR HENRY RAEBURN, R.A. (EDINBURGH 1756-1823)

Lot 19
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Lot 19 | SIR HENRY RAEBURN, R.A. (EDINBURGH 1756-1823)
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$ 60 000 – 80 000
SIR HENRY RAEBURN, R.A. (EDINBURGH 1756-1823)
Portrait of William Hunt (c.1796-1854), Pittencrief House, Dunfermline, full-length, seated on a rock in a landscape with a dog
oil on canvas
78 x 53 ½ in. (198.1 x 135.9 cm.)




Provenance

The sitter's sister, Christina Harrowar, née Hunt, Inzievar, and by descent to,
Mrs. James Macfarlane of Dunfermline, and by descent to,
James Macfarlane of Dunfermline, Procurator-Fiscal for Fife, and by descent to,
R.H.A. Hunt, Esq., Logie House, Dunfermline.
William Allan Coats (1853-1926), Dalskairth, Dumfrieshire, his deceased sale; Christie's, London, 10 June 1927, lot 122, as 'Portrait of James Harrower of Inzievar' (2600 gns. to Harcourt).
with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, where acquired in May 1974, by the following,
Walter P. Chrysler Jr. (1909-1988), Norfolk; his deceased sale; Sotheby's, New York, 1 June 1989, lot 91, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

W. Armstrong, Sir Henry Raeburn, London and New York, 1901, p. 105.
Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures of the French, Dutch, British and Other Schools, belonging to W.A. Coats, Glasgow, 1904, unpaginated, pl. CXXIX, as a Portrait of James Harrower.
J. Greig, Sir Henry Raeburn, London, 1911, p. 49.
D. Sutton, 'Bright as New Sovereigns', Apollo, April 1978, pp. 240-241, fig. 1.
D. Mackie, Raeburn, Life and Art, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 1993, III, pp. 545-546, under no. 412.
D. Thomas, The Art of Sir Henry Raeburn, exhibition catalogue, Edinburgh, 1997, p. 136, note 2, under no. 39.



Exhibited

London, Gallery of the Royal Society of British Artists, Pictures and Drawings, Being the entire collection of the late W.A. Coats, Esq., January 1927, no. 139, identified as James Harrower of Inzievar.
Norfolk, The Chrysler Museum of Art, on loan, May 1974.
Artist:Henry Raeburn (1756 - 1823)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Genre:Portrait
Place of origin:Northern Europe, Scotland, United Kingdom
Auction house category:Paintings
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