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

Portrait of Mrs James Law, ne Jane Robinson (c.1767-1846), half-length in a black dress, with a white headdress

Details

Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A. (1756-1823)
Portrait of Mrs James Law, ne Jane Robinson (c.1767-1846), half-length in a black dress, with a white headdress
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (77.4 x 64.1 cm.)

Provenance

Mrs Riddell, Edinburgh.

Literature

J. Grieg, Sir Henry Raeburn, London, 1911, p. 58.
Dr. D. Mackie, unpublished PhD thesis, Raeburn, Life and Art, A Complete Catalogue of the Artist's Work, Edinburgh, 1993, no. 460.

Exhibited

London, French Gallery, Pictures by Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A., and Others, 1909, no. 3.
Brussels, Retrospective of British Art, 1929, probably no.156 (lent by Lord Camrose).

Lot Essay

This portrait is datable to circa 1820. Jane Robinson, was the wife of James Law of Elvington, a surgeon and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, who also sat to Raeburn. Unfortunately the whereabouts of the portrait of James Law is unknown (see Dr. D. Mackie, unpublished Phd. thesis, Raeburn, Life and Art, A Complete Catalogue of the Artist's Work, Edinburgh, 1993, no. 459.).

We are grateful to Dr. David Mackie for his assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.

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