细节
Mather Brown (Boston 1761-1831 London)
Portrait of Sir William Franklin of Muntham Court, Sussex (1720-1805), seated half-length, his hand resting on a pressure pump, with two inscribed scrolls behind
signed 'M. Brown' (lower left); and inscribed 'WILLIAM, OF MUNTHAM.' (upper left)
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (77.5 x 64.5 cm.)
with inscription 'Sketches of Bagdad, Palmyra and Damascus Minutes of a Journey over the Desert and the Holy Land in 1760, 61 & 62' (on scrolls, center left)
来源
Sir William Frankland, and by family descent to
Maj. A.P. Frankland, Thrikleby House, Ascot, Berkshire; Christie's, 14 July 1930, lot 11.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, 2 July 1937, lot 75 (40 gns. to Frost and Reed).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 14 March 1980, lot 125.
出版
D. Evans, Mather Brown, early American artist in England, Middletown, Connecticut, 1982, p. 206, no. 60.
