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.

Published References

Rudolf Heinemann-Fleischmann, Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz : Ausstellung Neue Pinakothek (Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1930), vol. 1, cat. 277

Provenance

The artist's studio; to the sitter, 1792; Christie's, London, 11 June 1926, lot 78; where acquired by "Phillips" (per handwritten note in the Witt Library photoarchive); Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Rohoncz Castle, Hungary; by whom transferred to the Villa Favorita, Lugano, Switzerland, before 1936; to his son, Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Lugano, Switzerland; Sotheby's, 20 November 1963, lot 75; Leger Galleries, London by 1968; from which acquired by Julia and Richard H. Rush (1915-2011) by 1970; by whom given to present collection, 1982.

Catalogue Raisonne

Ward and Roberts 1904, p. 15

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