Lot Essay
For further information on this group of Wolff portraits see lots 56 and 57.
Details
John Downman, A.R.A. (1750-1824)
Portrait of the younger Miss Wolff as a Child, half-length, seated, in a landscape beneath a tree, her hair tied with a ribbon bandeau
signed and dated lower right 'Jo Downman/1802'; pencil, watercolour and stump heightened with white
12¾ x 10in. (324 x 254mm.)
Portrait of the younger Miss Wolff as a Child, half-length, seated, in a landscape beneath a tree, her hair tied with a ribbon bandeau
signed and dated lower right 'Jo Downman/1802'; pencil, watercolour and stump heightened with white
12¾ x 10in. (324 x 254mm.)
Provenance
Anon. sale, Christie's, 6 March 1925, lot 19 (72 gns. to Pawsey & Payne).
J. Thursby-Pelham.
Mrs. Guy Argles and by descent.
J. Thursby-Pelham.
Mrs. Guy Argles and by descent.
Literature
G.C. Williamson, John Downman, A.R.A., London, 1907, 2nd series, p.lii, no. 5.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of British Art, 1934, no. 1266 (Souvenir catalogue no.661) as 'Miss Wolff, sister, as child under tree'.