John Downman, A.R.A. (1750-1824)

Details

John Downman, A.R.A. (1750-1824)
Portrait of Miss Wolff as a Child, half-length
signed and dated lower right 'Jo Downman/1802'; pencil, stump and watercolour
12¾ x 10 1/8in. (324 x 258mm.)

Provenance

Anon. sale, Christie's, 6 March 1925, lot 18 (31 gns. to Pawsey & Payne).
J. Thursby-Pelham.
Mrs. Guy Argles and by descent.

Literature

G.C. Williamson, John Downman, A.R.A., London, 1907, 2nd series, p.1ii.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of British Art, 1934, no. 1260 (souvenir catalogue no.660) as 'Miss Woolf [sic] as a child'.

Lot Essay

For the Wolff family see lot 56. In the past there has been confusion with a previous generation of Wolff daughters sketched in the Butleigh Court sketchbooks in 1778 (see G.C. Williamson, op.cit., 1907, p.1ii).

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