George Romney (1734-1802)

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George Romney (1734-1802)

Portrait of John Blackburne, half-length, seated, wearing a blue coat, with crimson lapels, and a white shirt, seated at a writing desk

oil on canvas
40 x 35in. (101.5 x 89cm.)
framed

Provenance

Possibly R. Ireland Blackburne, Esq., Hale Hall, Liverpool, Lancs.
Possibly Thomas Agnew & Sons, London
Alfred H. Mulliken, Chicago and New Canaan, CT; his sale, New York, American Art Association, 5 January 1933
G. Beekman; by descent to Mrs. G. Beekman Hoppin, until 1952
Mrs. E. Farrar Bateson, New York, 1965
Metropolitan Museum of Art; sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, 15 February, 1973
Private collection, New York

Literature

Possibly, H. Ward & W. Roberts, Romney, A Biographical and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonnae of his Works, 1904, vol. II, p. 13 The Art News, December 17, 1932, Vol. 31, pp. 3-4, illus.
American Art Annual, 1933, vol. 30, p. 789 (50)

Lot Essay

John Blackburne (1754-1833) of Hale Hall, Oxford Hall and Newton, was for 46 years the M.P. for Lancashire, Deputy Lieutenant High Sheriff in 1781 and a Fellow of the Royal Society. Romney also painted his wife, Anne, daughter of Samuel Rodbard, Esq., of Evercreech, Somerset. Prior to its installation at the Metropolitan Museum eight inches from the bottom of the canvas were removed, but this has been kept attached to the stretcher

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