John Tait and His Grandson

Henry Raeburnc. 1793, with additions c. 1800

Details

Title: John Tait and His Grandson
Creator: Sir Henry Raeburn
Date Created: c. 1793, with additions c. 1800
Physical Dimensions: overall: 126 x 100 cm (49 5/8 x 39 3/8 in.)
Provenance: Craufurd Tait, Edinburgh [d. 1832], the sitter's only son; by descent through John Tait [d. 1877], the child in the portrait, to Mrs. Frederick Pitman, née Tait, Edinburgh, by 1901; her eldest son, Archibald Robert Craufurd Pitman, Edinburgh; sold October 1918 to (Robert Langton Douglas, London and New York);[1] purchased February 1919 by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; [2] deeded December 1934 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA. [1] John S. Pitman (Archibald Pitman's brother), undated letter to Langton Douglas, in NGA curatorial files. See letter from Douglas to Fowles dated 1 May 1941, Duveen Brothers Records, Box 244 (reel 299). [2] M. Knoedler & Co. stock books (Helmut Ripperger to Ross Watson, 28 September 1969, in NGA curatorial files).
Rights: CC0
Medium: oil on canvas

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