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THE DESMOND HEYWARD COLLECTION, FROM HASELEY COURT, OXFORDSHIRE
ALLAN RAMSAY, R.A. (EDINBURGH 1713-1784 DOVER)
Portrait of Richard Powney, D.C.L (b. c.1702), half-length, in a brown coat and gold-embroidered waistcoat, in a sculpted cartouche
Details
ALLAN RAMSAY, R.A. (EDINBURGH 1713-1784 DOVER)
Portrait of Richard Powney, D.C.L (b. c.1702), half-length, in a brown coat and gold-embroidered waistcoat, in a sculpted cartouche
oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 25 1/8 in. (76.5 x 63.8cm.)
in a George II carved giltwood frame
Portrait of Richard Powney, D.C.L (b. c.1702), half-length, in a brown coat and gold-embroidered waistcoat, in a sculpted cartouche
oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 25 1/8 in. (76.5 x 63.8cm.)
in a George II carved giltwood frame
Provenance
By inheritance to the sitter's niece,
Elizabeth Dorothea Powney, and by descent to her daughter,
Eliza Wylde Ebden, and by descent in the family to her grandson,
Leonard Powney Ebden (d. 1934).
Mrs M. Mellon; Christie's, London, 7 March 1958, lot 176, 45 gns. to,
Sir Sydney Barratt (1898-1975), at Summerhill, Staffordshire, and later at Crowe Hall, Bath, 1961 and by descent to the following,
The Barratt Collection from Crowe Hill, Bath; Christie's, London, 16 December 2010, lot 265.
Elizabeth Dorothea Powney, and by descent to her daughter,
Eliza Wylde Ebden, and by descent in the family to her grandson,
Leonard Powney Ebden (d. 1934).
Mrs M. Mellon; Christie's, London, 7 March 1958, lot 176, 45 gns. to,
Sir Sydney Barratt (1898-1975), at Summerhill, Staffordshire, and later at Crowe Hall, Bath, 1961 and by descent to the following,
The Barratt Collection from Crowe Hill, Bath; Christie's, London, 16 December 2010, lot 265.
Literature
A. Smart, Allan Ramsay: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, ed. J. Ingamells, New Haven and London, 1999, pp. 169 and 230, no. 424, fig. 63.
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