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Study of an arm and hand, and slight portrait study of Dorothy Mason (Lady Brownlow) (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1618-1680

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1656-1687

Title

Study of an arm and hand, and slight portrait study of Dorothy Mason (Lady Brownlow) (recto)

Date of Production

(?) 1687

Medium

black, red and white chalk (arm study), graphite (portrait) (recto), black, red and white chalk (verso) on blue (now brown) laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 12.6 cm
Width: 24.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.949

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

Thomas Hudson, London (1701-1779), L.2432; possibly his estate sale, Langford (Covent Garden), 15-27 March 1779, first night's sale, lot 2 (thirty-four studies by Sir Peter Lely &c) or lot 6 (sixteen studies by Lely and Riley); E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d. (10 shillings, along with RW.948, both as by Wissing); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Sir Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1971-1972

Literature

Sir Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1971-1972
cat. no. 31 (as Wissing)

Chaloner Smith, John, British mezzotint portraits; being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century., London 1884
vol. III, p. 1199, no. 179

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: right centre, graphite, artist's hand: "Madam Mason".

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right, stamped in black: Thomas Hudson (L.2432). Verso: lower right, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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