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Portrait of Mrs Henry Vansittart (née Catherine Maria Powney, 1764-1817) and her son, Henry Vansittart III (1784-1848), half-length
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JOHN RUSSELL, R.A. (GUILDFORD 1745-1806 HULL)
Portrait of Mrs Henry Vansittart (née Catherine Maria Powney, 1764-1817) and her son, Henry Vansittart III (1784-1848), half-length
signed and indistinctly dated 'JRussell 1789[?]' (upper left)
pastel on paper
29 x 24 in. (74 x 61.5 cm.)
Portrait of Mrs Henry Vansittart (née Catherine Maria Powney, 1764-1817) and her son, Henry Vansittart III (1784-1848), half-length
signed and indistinctly dated 'JRussell 1789[?]' (upper left)
pastel on paper
29 x 24 in. (74 x 61.5 cm.)
Provenance
with Duveen Brothers, London (Catalogue of a collection of ten pastel drawings by John Russell, R.A., c. 1911, no. 1 (as signed and dated 1789)).
Leopold Hirsch (1857-1932), London.
Mrs. R. Biddle, New York; Ader, Paris, 5 December 1959, lot 17.
Jacques Seligmann & Co, New York, stock no. 7372.
Anonymous sale; Martin & Desbenoit, Versailles, Palais des Congrés, 17 March 1991, lot 133.
Leopold Hirsch (1857-1932), London.
Mrs. R. Biddle, New York; Ader, Paris, 5 December 1959, lot 17.
Jacques Seligmann & Co, New York, stock no. 7372.
Anonymous sale; Martin & Desbenoit, Versailles, Palais des Congrés, 17 March 1991, lot 133.
Literature
C. Dorange, John Russell (1745-1805) et la France, British Art Journal, 2010, pp. 145-57, no. 57.
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Lucy Speelman
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