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Bust portrait of Mrs Allen, sister of Dr Hugh Downman

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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

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.)

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