Bust portrait of Mrs Allen, sister of Dr Hugh Downman
Maker
(artist)
1750-1824
1750-1824
Title
Bust portrait of Mrs Allen, sister of Dr Hugh Downman
Date of Production
1765 - 1824
Medium
black chalk with stumping and added wash on laid paper, cut into an oval
Dimensions
Height: 15.4 cm
Width: 13 cm
Width: 13 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.735
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
in the owner's family ever since an ancestor married a Miss Downman, Sotheby's (London), 27-28 June 1922, lot 64a; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£16.5); Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, American Federation of the Arts, Washington, D.C. and nine cities in the USA, 1951
Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949 - 1950
Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943 ...More
Exhibition of late 18th and early 19th Century Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1933 (Jun.-Jul.)
catalogue untraced, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1932
Exhibition of the works of some neglected English masters, c.1750-c.1830, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1932
Bicentenary memorial exhibition of Thomas Gainsborough: illustrating the various periods of his work, also the work of his contemporaries and his influence on the art of his own and later times., Ipswich Museum, 07/10/1927-05/11/1927 ...Less
Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949 - 1950
Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943 ...More
Exhibition of late 18th and early 19th Century Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1933 (Jun.-Jul.)
catalogue untraced, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1932
Exhibition of the works of some neglected English masters, c.1750-c.1830, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1932
Bicentenary memorial exhibition of Thomas Gainsborough: illustrating the various periods of his work, also the work of his contemporaries and his influence on the art of his own and later times., Ipswich Museum, 07/10/1927-05/11/1927 ...Less
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 17
Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949-50
no. 21
Exhibition of late 18th and early 19th Century Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1933 ...More
Exhibition of the works of some neglected English masters, c.1750-c.1830, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1932
cat. no. 150
as 'Portrait of Mrs Allen, sister of Dr Hugh Downman' ...Less
p. 17
Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949-50
no. 21
Exhibition of late 18th and early 19th Century Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1933 ...More
Exhibition of the works of some neglected English masters, c.1750-c.1830, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1932
cat. no. 150
as 'Portrait of Mrs Allen, sister of Dr Hugh Downman' ...Less
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left lower edge, fragment: bottom of a Strasburg lily above "L V G".
Inscription: Verso: centre, graphite, Witt number: "735".
Collector's mark: Verso: lower centre, stamped: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b.)
Inscription: Verso: centre, graphite, Witt number: "735".
Collector's mark: Verso: lower centre, stamped: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b.)
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