Property from the Collection of William and Eleanor Wood Prince, Chicago, Illinois

Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A. (Scottish, 1756-1823)

Portrait of John Anderson of Inchyra, seated half-length, in a green coat

Details

Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A. (Scottish, 1756-1823)
Portrait of John Anderson of Inchyra, seated half-length, in a green coat
oil on canvas
35½ x 28 in. (90.1 x 71.1 cm.)

Provenance

Mrs. Anderson (Janet Mitchelson), wife of the sitter.
Mrs. Anderson, Dalhousie Grange, by 1876.
A.R. Wilson-Wood, Esq.
Mrs. M.J. Maitland Herriot (+); Christie's, London, 18 June 1954, lot 20 (400 gns. to J. Nicholson).
with Findlay Galleries, Chicago.

Literature

W. Armstrong, Sir Henry Raeburn, New York, 1901, p. 95.
J. Greig, Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A., London, 1911, p. 37.
D. Thomas and D. Mackie, et al., Raeburn : the art of Sir Henry Raeburn, 1756-1823, Edinburgh, 1997, no. 26.

Exhibited

Edinburgh, Raeburn, 1876, no. 200.
Chicago, Art Institute, on loan.

Sale room notice

Please note that there is additional provenance for this lot:
Mrs. Anderson, Dalhousie Grange, by 1876.

There is also additional literature for this lot:
D. Thomas and D. Mackie, et al., Raeburn : the art of Sir Henry Raeburn, 1756-1823, Edinburgh, 1997, no. 26.

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Lot Essay

The present portrait was originally conceived with a pendant of the sitter's wife, in a white dress seated on a red chair. Both portraits are believed to have been painted in 1790 as there is record of John Anderson having asked Raeburn's frame-maker for a pair of frames in that year. John was the third son of David Anderson of Stoneyhill, Factor to the Earl of Wemyss, and his wife Mary Mitchelson, and was born on 14 August 1754. In 1784, he married his cousin Janet Mitchelson. The couple commissioned their home, Inchyra House, in 1810, which was designed to resemble the Commercial Bank in Edinburgh.

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