Edward Bootle Wilbraham, Baron Skelmersdale

George Romney, English, 1734 - 1802

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late 18th century

Oil on canvas

Overall: 50 1/4 × 40 1/2 in. (127.7 × 102.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Julia and Richard H. Rush, Class of 1937, Tuck 1938

P.982.29

Geography

Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Painting

Not on view

Inscriptions

Label, on reverse: LEGER GALLERIES; label, on reverse: 415: label, on reverse: 93

Exhibition History

The Richard H. Rush Collection, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, New York, February 25-April 25, 1971, no. 43.

Publication History

"The Richard H. Rush Collection", Finch College Museum of Art, New York, New York, 1971, no. 43.

T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, pp. 76-77, ill. p.77, no. 33.

Provenance

Sotheby's, November 20, 1963, lot 75; Leger Galleries, London; Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Villa Favorita, Castagnola, Lugano, Switzerland; Julia and Richard H. Rush (1915-2011); given to present collection, 1982.

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