Lot Essay
The sitter is Anne Rachel (died 1839), eldest daughter of Thomas Chute of The Vyne, Hampshire, who became the second wife of Sir William Hicks, 7th Bt., in 1793.
Portrait of Anne Rachel, Lady Hicks, half-length, in a red dress with a lace shawl, in a landscape
Details
Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (1769-1830)
Portrait of Anne Rachel, Lady Hicks, half-length, in a red dress with a lace shawl, in a landscape
oil on canvas, oval
29 x 23 in. (73.6 x 58.4 cm.)
Portrait of Anne Rachel, Lady Hicks, half-length, in a red dress with a lace shawl, in a landscape
oil on canvas, oval
29 x 23 in. (73.6 x 58.4 cm.)
Provenance
by descent in the family of the sitter.
H. Budge; Graupe, Berlin, 27 September, 1937, lot 16.
with Newhouse Galleries, New York.
Mrs Sandra McIlwaine; Christie's, New York, 18 January 1984, lot 60.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 12 January 1989, lot 141 (sold $23,100).
with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London.
H. Budge; Graupe, Berlin, 27 September, 1937, lot 16.
with Newhouse Galleries, New York.
Mrs Sandra McIlwaine; Christie's, New York, 18 January 1984, lot 60.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 12 January 1989, lot 141 (sold $23,100).
with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London.
Literature
The Masterpieces of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Gowan's Art Books, 52, Glasgow, 1913, p. 26.
Sir W. Armstrong, Lawrence, London, 1913, p. 139.
K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Oxford, 1989, p. 208, no. 407.
Sir W. Armstrong, Lawrence, London, 1913, p. 139.
K. Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Oxford, 1989, p. 208, no. 407.
Exhibited
Berlin, Kaiser Friedrich Musuem, Kaiser Friedrichs Verein, 1906, no. 61.
Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Paintings from Private Collectors, 1925, no. 176.
Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Paintings from Private Collectors, 1925, no. 176.
Special notice
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