ID 1105740
Lot 68 | SIR JOHN LAVERY, R.A., R.S.A., R.H.A. (IRISH, 1856-1941)
Estimate value
£ 10 000 – 15 000
Portrait of Mabel Choate (1870-1958)
signed and dated 'J·Lavery/1905' (lower right)
oil on canvas
36 5⁄8 x 25 5⁄8 in. (93.2 x 65.2 cm.)
Provenance
The sitter, Mabel Choate, New York, by whom given to
The Museum of the City of New York, 14 April 1942.
with Knapp Antiques, New York, by 1959, where purchased by
Donald Kane (1926-2022), Brooklyn, until 2022, by whom given to the present owner.
Literature
‘The Lights of London – Fashionable Gossip’, Belfast Telegraph, 10 November 1905, p. 6.
‘Old Masters and Young Scots’, Dundee Courier, 18 November 1905, p. 4.
W. Shaw-Sparrow, John Lavery and His Work, London, 1911, p. 186, as Miss Choate.
J. Crichton-Browne, What the Doctor Thought, London, 1930, p. 225.
J. Lavery, The Life of a Painter, Boston, 1940, p. 122.
Exhibited
London, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, 1905, no. 80, as Miss Choate.
New York, Museum of the City of New York, circa 1940s.
| Artist: | John Lavery (1856 - 1941) |
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| Artist: | John Lavery (1856 - 1941) |
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