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SIR HENRY RAEBURN, R.A. (STOCKBRIDGE 1756-1823 EDINBURGH)
Portrait of William Fullarton of Skeldon, three-quarter length, in a red coat, reclining in a landscape
oil on canvas
50 x 40 1⁄8 in. (127 x 101.9 cm.)
Provenance
Miss Fullarton, by 1876.
Mrs. James J. Souter-Sanderson, by 1901.
Mrs E. A. Souter-Sanderson, Wheatlands Manor, Finchampstead, Berkshire, and by whose estate sold,
[The following is sold by Order of the Executors of Mrs. E.A. Souter-Sanderson, late of Wheatlands Manor, Finchampstead, Berkshire]; Christie's, London, 26 October 1945, lot 87, where acquired by the following,
with the Fine Art Society, London.
Captain Alexander Steven Bilsland, 1st Baron Bilsland, KT, MC (1892-1970), London, and by whom sold,
[From the Collection of Lord Bilsland]; Christie's, London, 19 November 1970, lot 204.
with Newhouse Galleries, New York,
Acquired by Russell Barnett Aitken (1910-2002) and Annie-Laurie Aitken, née Warmack (1900-1984) from the above in June 1971.
Literature
W.R. Andrew, Life of Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A.: with portraits and appendix, London, 1886, p. 122, no. 119.
W. Armstrong, Sir Henry Raeburn: with an introduction by R.A.M. Stevenson and a biographical and descriptive catalogue by J.L. Caw, London and New York, 1901, p. 102.
E. Pinnington, The Makers of British Art: Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A., London and New York, 1904, p. 230, no. 257.
J. Greig, Sir Henry Raeburn, R. A.: His Life and Works, with a Catalogue of His Pictures, London, 1911, p. 46.
D. Mackie, Raeburn, life and art, II, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Edinburgh, 1993, p. 425, no. 313.
Exhibited
Edinburgh, The Royal Academy, National Gallery of Scotland, Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A., October-November 1876, no. 197.
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