Sale 8692
London, South Kensington
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9 March 2000
Price realised
GBP 6,325
Estimate
William Owen (1769-1825) Portrait of Mrs Shaw of Greens Norton, Towcester, full-length, in a black dress, by a balustrade, in a landscape oil on canvas 97¾ x 57½ in. (248.2 x 146 cm.)
Provenance
Sir Lionel Phillips Bt., Tylney Hall, Winchfield; Christie's, 25 April 1913, lot 47 as 'J. Hoppner, R.A.' (620 gns. Agnew's). Mr and Mrs R. Livingstone; Sotheby's New York, 21 September 1957, lot 430. C. Christie. Constance Feeley Reed, New York. Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 14 July 1993, lot 159 (sold £6400).
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Literature
W. McKay and W. Roberts, Supplement and Index to John Hoppner, R.A., 1914, p. 54.
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