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Materials:

oil on copper

Measurements:

7.99 in. (20.30 cm.) (height) by 7.09 in. (18.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

with a label on the backboard: 'C. George Thornton Esq/A Picture on copper/to be guarded against/wet which would spoil the painting/with best regards to his old/friend Baron Wolff written/by him in his 97th year of/age./Tunbridge Wells Sep 18th 1846.' and label on the frame: '1654/From the/Hanbury-Williams/Collection'

Exhibited:

Probably: St Petersburg, Istoricheskaia vystavka portretov lits XVI-XVIII vv., ustroennaia obshchestvom pooshchreniia khudozhnikov [ Exhibition of historical portraits of the XVI-XVII centuries, organised by the society for the encouragement of arts ], 1870, no. 563, property of N. Voekov. New York, The Gallery of Modern Art, A survey of Russian paintings fifteen century to the present, 14 June-17 September 1967

Literature:

Probably: Exhibition catalogue, Istoricheskaia vystavka portretov lits XVI-XVIII vv., ustroennaia obshchestvom pooshchreniia khudozhnikov [ Exhibition of historical portraits of the XVI-XVII centuries, organised by the society for the encouragement of arts ], St Petersburg, 1870, listed p. 157, no. 563. Exhibition catalogue, A survey of Russian paintings fifteen century to the present , New York, 1967, listed p. 51, illustrated p. 7

Provenance:

Probably: N. Voekov. C. George Thornton, Tunbridge Wells (inscription on a label on the backboard). A gift from the above to Baron Wolff, 18 September 1846 (inscription on a label on the backboard). The Hanbury-Williams Collection (label on the frame). Abraham Herenroth (1902-1993), New York in 1967