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Portrait heads of three boys

Maker

(artist)
1759-1833

Title

Portrait heads of three boys

Date of Production

1829

Medium

graphite, grey ink, grey wash and watercolour on yellowed paper, laid down on card

Dimensions

Height: 12.6 cm
Width: 13.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4137.1

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

Keywords




Provenance

Christie's (London), 16 July 1919; purchased there by Oswald Magniac, London; by descent to Florence A. Magniac, London; her estate sale at Christie's (London), 25 March 1949, lot 118 (with D.1952.RW.4137.2); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£6); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

An Elegant Society: Adam Buck, Artist in the Age of Jane Austen, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 16/07/2015-04/10/2015

Literature

Darvall, Peter, A Regency Buck: Adam Buck (1759-1833), exh. cat., Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 2015.
pp. 76, 173
fig. 121 on p. 77

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 7

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as is laid down.

Collector's mark: Mount (removed), Verso: lower left, stamped: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: lower left, graphite, signed and dated by the artist: “Adam Buck 1829.“. Backing card, Verso: upper left, black chalk: “454 BP“; lower centre, graphite: “Sep 1829“; lower right, graphite, Colnaghi number and price: “C/BH/- / A16313“; graphite, partly erased: “Ages / Years (?) Months / 2 / 6 / 8“. Mount (removed, cut down and in object file), black ink, Oswald Magniac’s hand, cut off at left edge: “[...]ter Colour drawing / [...]ortraits of / Adam Buck's / three children / by himself / (sd. + dated) / I bought this at Christie's / 16 July 1919 / O.M.“.

Label: Mount (removed, cut down, now in object file): cut off so only first letters visible, first line printed in black, the rest in graphite: "G. / R / W".

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