Portrait of the younger Miss Wolff as a child, half-length, seated, her hair tied with a ribbon bandeau, in a landscape beneath a tree

細節

John Downman, A.R.A. (1750-1824)
Portrait of the younger Miss Wolff as a child, half-length, seated, her hair tied with a ribbon bandeau, in a landscape beneath a tree
signed and dated 'Jo Downman/1802' (lower left)
pencil, watercolour and stump heightened with touches of white
12¾ x 10 in. (32.4 x 25.4 cm.)

來源

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 6 March 1925, lot 19 (75 gns to Pawsey & Payne).
J. Thursby-Pelham.
Mrs. Guy Argles and by descent until
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 November 1995, lot 54, where purchased by the present owner.

展覽

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of British Art, 1934, no. 1266 (Souvenir catalogue no. 661) as 'Miss Wolff, sister, as child under tree'.

注意事項

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拍品專文

Downman executed a series of portraits of the Wolff family, George and his brother Ernest Wolff, George's two daughters Elizabeth and Matilda, his only son Jens and later also Jens' wife and children. The Wolff family were Danish merchants and consuls in London. Other drawings of the family by Downman are in the Butleigh Court Sketchbooks, now in the British Museum, see G.C. Williamson, John Downman, A.R.A., 1907, pp. Iii, Iiv. This watercolour and lot 9 were sold as part of a group of particularly fine early English portrait drawings, from a collection originally formed by James A.H. Thursby-Pelham and sold in these Rooms 7 November 1995, lots 39-70.