Details
Circle of George Romney, R.A. (Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire 1734-1802 Kendal, Cumbria)
Portrait of an officer, traditionally identified as Colonel Colin MacKenzie (1754–1821), half-length, in a scarlet military coat
oil on canvas
28 x 22 1/8 in. (71.1 x 56.3 cm.)
Provenance
with Percy Moore Turner, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire; Christie’s, London, 23 May 1924, lot 106, as 'G. Romney', where acquired for 160 gns. by the following
with Agnew’s, London.
with John Levy, New York.
Harold O. Hunt, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and by descent to his widow,
Margaret Washburn Hunt, Wayzata, Minnesota, by whom bequeathed in 1961 to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Literature
H. Ward and W. Roberts, Romney, London, 1904, II, p. 98, as George Romney.
'Romney Portraits Lent for Exhibition,' Bulletin of The Minneapolis Institute of Art, XXIV, 23 March 1935, p. 59, as George Romney.
Catalogue of European Paintings in The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, 1970, pp. 60-61, no. 26, illustrated, as George Romney.
B. Maclean-Eltham, Romney Paintings in Public Collections, Kendal, 1996, p. 41, as George Romney.
A. Kidson, George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, London, 2015, III, p. 722, no. 1580, as 'uncharacteristic' and possibly 'a copy of a lost painting by [Romney]'.
Exhibited
Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1935.
Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Paintings from Private Collections in the Twin Cities, 1941, no. 9.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
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