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Lady Elizabeth Delmé and Her Children
Joshua Reynolds1777-1779
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Lady Elizabeth Delmé and Her Children
- Creator: Sir Joshua Reynolds
- Date Created: 1777-1779
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 238.4 x 147.2 cm (93 7/8 x 57 15/16 in.) framed: 266.4 x 175.3 cm (104 7/8 x 69 in.)
- Provenance: Painted for the sitter's husband, Peter Delmé [1748-1789], Titchfield Abbey, Hampshire; by descent to Seymour Robert Delmé, Cams Hall, Hampshire. Charles J. Wertheimer [1842-1911], London.[1] (Christie, Manson & Wood, London); purchased c. 1900-1901[2] by J. Pierpont Morgan, Sr. [1837-1913], New York; bequeathed to his daughter, Mrs. Robert L. Satterlee [d. 1946], who owned it until c. 1930. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold 15 December 1936 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[3] gift 1937 to NGA. [1] Wertheimer's name is in the list of former collections given for the painting on the Duveen Brothers invoice (see note 3). [2]_Connoisseur_ 3 (1901), 206, notes this portrait as recently sold to Pierpont Morgan [3] The original Duveen Brothers invoice is in Gallery Archives, copy in NGA curatorial files.
- Medium: oil on canvas
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