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Bust portrait of a boy

Maker

Maria Sharples (artist)
1753-1849

Title

Bust portrait of a boy

Date of Production

1768 - 1849

Medium

pastels on paper (media too thick to check if laid or wove and secured at all sides to backboard so unable to lift)

Dimensions

Height: 23.1 cm
Width: 17.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3693

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Ford (as written in Colnaghi's stock books - is this Sir Brinsley Ford?); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 26 February 1945; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 7 March 1945 (£8); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 46

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as drawing secured at all sides; none evident in raking light.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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