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Portrait of a Lady
British 18th Centuryc. 1770/1775
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Portrait of a Lady
- Creator: British 18th Century
- Date Created: c. 1770/1775
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 93.3 x 71.8 cm (36 3/4 x 28 1/4 in.) framed: 108.9 x 88.6 x 6.4 cm (42 7/8 x 34 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: (Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] de Forest, New York); sold 19 September 1922 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York, as a portrait of Ruth Cunningham by Robert Feke;[1] sold by Clarke's executors to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), from whom it was purchased 29 January 1936, as part of the Clarke collection, by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift to NGA, 1947. [1] According to 1928 Clarke exhibition catalogue annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library). The provenance from Nathaniel Cunningham of Cambridge, Massachusetts, brother of the supposed sitter, supplied by the dealer, de Forest, is suspect and cannot be verified; see undated note by John Hill Morgan in NGA curatorial files.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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