Portrait of Mrs. Abney, seated three-quarter-length, in a white muslin dress, spinning wool, a work-basket on a table
Details
Joseph Wright of Derby, A.R.A. (1734-1797)
Portrait of Mrs. Abney, seated three-quarter-length, in a white muslin dress, spinning wool, a work-basket on a table
oil on canvas
50 x 40¼in (127 x 102.2cm.)
Portrait of Mrs. Abney, seated three-quarter-length, in a white muslin dress, spinning wool, a work-basket on a table
oil on canvas
50 x 40¼in (127 x 102.2cm.)
Provenance
by descent to Rev. E.H. Abney, 1870.
with Thos. Agnews & Sons., by whom sold to the present owner.
with Thos. Agnews & Sons., by whom sold to the present owner.
Literature
B. Nicolson, Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light, London and New York, 1968, p. 174.
B. Nicolson, Wright of Derby: addenda and corrigenda, The Burlington Magazine, CXXX, no. 1027, October 1988, p. 751, pl. 35.
B. Nicolson, Wright of Derby: addenda and corrigenda, The Burlington Magazine, CXXX, no. 1027, October 1988, p. 751, pl. 35.