Details
ANGELICA KAUFFMAN, R.A. (CHUR, GRAUBÜNDEN 1741-1807 ROME)
Diana before the hunt
signed with initials 'AK' (centre right, on the rock)
oil on copper, oval
7 ½ x 6 in. (18.9 x 15.3 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 11 December 1779 (=2nd day), lot 83, where acquired with the following lot, 'its companion', Paris and Oenone, for 20 gns. by,
The Rev. Henry Bate, later Sir Henry Bate Dudley Bt. (1745-1824), Bradwell Lodge, Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex.
Senator James Hampden Robb (1846-1911), 23 Park Avenue, New York City; his sale (†), American Art Association, New York, 26 April 1912, lot 486.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 November 1996, lot 113 (part lot).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 12 June 2003, lot 96.
with Rafael Valls, London, from whom acquired by the present owner.
Literature
F.A. Gerard, Angelica Kauffmann: A Biography, London, 1893, pp. 393, no. 31, and 441, no. 165.
Lady V. Manners and Dr G.C. Williamson, Angelica Kauffmann, R.A., Her Life and Her Works, New York, 1900, pp. 46, 224, 238, no. 165.
Exhibition of Paintings by Angelica Kauffmann at the Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, exhibition catalogue, London, 1955, pp. 21-22, under no. 35.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1779, no. 165 (lent by the artist).
London, Rafael Valls, Angelica Kauffman in British Collections, 19 November-14 December 2007, no. 1 (lent from a private collection).
Engraved
F. Bartolozzi, 1780, as 'Diana preparing for Hunting from an Original in the Collection of the Rev. Henry Bate'.
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