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Portrait of Harriet Bailey Foster, later Mrs Charles Kennett (c.1784-1851), as a child, full-length, in a white dress and bonnet, holding a basket and a chick, in a rural landscape
Details
James Northcote (Plymouth 1746 -1831)
Portrait of Harriet Bailey Foster, later Mrs Charles Kennett (c.1784-1851), as a child, full-length, in a white dress and bonnet, holding a basket and a chick, in a rural landscape
signed and dated 'J.s Northcote . pinx / 1797' (lower right)
oil on canvas
50 1/8 x 40 in. (127.2 x 101.6 cm.)
Portrait of Harriet Bailey Foster, later Mrs Charles Kennett (c.1784-1851), as a child, full-length, in a white dress and bonnet, holding a basket and a chick, in a rural landscape
signed and dated 'J.s Northcote . pinx / 1797' (lower right)
oil on canvas
50 1/8 x 40 in. (127.2 x 101.6 cm.)
Provenance
Colonel Baylay, 1903.
Anonymous sale [Mrs. H.G.W. Bradly, Virginia Water]; Christie's, London, 24 November 1933, lot 61 (240 gns. to A.M.).
Anonymous sale [Mrs. H.G.W. Bradly, Virginia Water]; Christie's, London, 24 November 1933, lot 61 (240 gns. to A.M.).
Literature
S. Gwynn, Memorials of an eighteenth century painter (James Northcote), London, 1898, no. 318.
Whitman, 1903, p. 112, no. 415b, as 'Innocent Affection'.
'The Account Book, 1797', Walpole Society, LVIII, 1996/7, p. 67, no. 332 (£21.0.0).
Whitman, 1903, p. 112, no. 415b, as 'Innocent Affection'.
'The Account Book, 1797', Walpole Society, LVIII, 1996/7, p. 67, no. 332 (£21.0.0).
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1798, no. 141.
Engraved
S.W. Reynolds, in mezzotint, published by J. Brydon, 1798.
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