SIR HENRY RAEBURN, R.A. (STOCKBRIDGE 1756-1823 EDINBURGH) - photo 1
SIR HENRY RAEBURN, R.A. (STOCKBRIDGE 1756-1823 EDINBURGH) - photo 2
SIR HENRY RAEBURN, R.A. (STOCKBRIDGE 1756-1823 EDINBURGH) - photo 3

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

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03.07.2024 10:30UTC +01:00
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ID 1248184
Lot 194 | SIR HENRY RAEBURN, R.A. (STOCKBRIDGE 1756-1823 EDINBURGH)
SIR HENRY RAEBURN, R.A. (STOCKBRIDGE 1756-1823 EDINBURGH)
Portrait of a young boy, full-length, holding a basket of cherries
oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 25 in. (76.5 x 63.5 cm.)




Provenance

By descent in the artist’s family; their sale, Christie’s, London, 7 May 1877, lot 30 (240 gns. to Agnews).
Captain Gaskell.
Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, 1st Bt. (1819-1900); (†) Christie’s, London, 5 July 1902, lot 73, where unsold.
Major Oswald Ames, London, 1904.
Anonymous sale [Sold by Order of Executors]; Christie’s, London, 3 July 1908, lot 138 (571 gns. to Sulley).
Thatcher M. Adams (1837-1919), New York; (†) Hotel Plaza, New York, 15 January 1920 (=2nd day), lot 146, when acquired for $20,000 by,
Bernon S. Prentice (1882-1948), New York; his sale (†), Parke-Bernet, New York, 17-18 April 1952.
Anonymous sale; DejaVu Estate Sales & Auctions, Palm Beach, 15 April 2024, lot 663, when acquired by the present owner.



Literature

W. Raeburn Andrew, Life of Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A., London, 1894, p. 105, no. 30.
Sir W. Armstrong, Sir Henry Raeburn, London and New York, 1901, p. 115.
E. Pinnington, Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A., New York, 1904, p. 262.
J. Greig, Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A. His Life and Works with a Catalogue of His Pictures, London, 1911, pp. 39, 56.
American Art News, XVIII, no. 14, 24 January 1920, p. 4.



Exhibited

(Possibly) Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Works of Deceased and Living Scottish Artists, October 1963, no. 43, lent by John P. Raeburn.
London, Royal Academy; Edinburgh, National Galleries, Catalogue of the works of Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A., October-November 1876, no. 89, lent by the Raeburn Family.
British Institution, 1901.
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1906, no. 30, lent by Major Oswald Ames.
New York, Park Bernet Galleries, French and English Art Treasures of the XVIII century: Loan Exhibition in Aid of the American Women’s Voluntary Services, New York, 20-30 December 1942, no. 410, lent by Bernon S. Prentice.
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