Circle of George Romney, R.A. (Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire 1734-1802 Kendal, Cumbria)
This lot is offered without reserve. Sold by Order of the Board of Trustees of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund
Circle of George Romney, R.A. (Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire 1734-1802 Kendal, Cumbria)

Portrait of an officer, traditionally identified as Colonel Colin MacKenzie (1754–1821), half-length, in a scarlet military coat

细节
Circle of George Romney, R.A. (Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire 1734-1802 Kendal, Cumbria)
Portrait of an officer, traditionally identified as Colonel Colin MacKenzie (1754–1821), half-length, in a scarlet military coat
oil on canvas
28 x 22 1/8 in. (71.1 x 56.3 cm.)
来源
with Percy Moore Turner, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire; Christie’s, London, 23 May 1924, lot 106, as 'G. Romney', where acquired for 160 gns. by the following
with Agnew’s, London.
with John Levy, New York.
Harold O. Hunt, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and by descent to his widow,
Margaret Washburn Hunt, Wayzata, Minnesota, by whom bequeathed in 1961 to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
出版
H. Ward and W. Roberts, Romney, London, 1904, II, p. 98, as George Romney.
'Romney Portraits Lent for Exhibition,' Bulletin of The Minneapolis Institute of Art, XXIV, 23 March 1935, p. 59, as George Romney.
Catalogue of European Paintings in The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, 1970, pp. 60-61, no. 26, illustrated, as George Romney.
B. Maclean-Eltham, Romney Paintings in Public Collections, Kendal, 1996, p. 41, as George Romney.
A. Kidson, George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, London, 2015, III, p. 722, no. 1580, as 'uncharacteristic' and possibly 'a copy of a lost painting by [Romney]'.
展览
Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1935.
Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Paintings from Private Collections in the Twin Cities, 1941, no. 9.
注意事项
This lot is offered without reserve.

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拍品专文

This dashing portrait of an officer was incorrectly identified in 1904 by Ward and Roberts (loc. cit.) as the three-quarter-length portrait of Colin MacKenzie (1754–1821) recorded in Romney's records as having been painted in 1777, now untraced.

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