SIR HENRY RAEBURN, R.A. (EDINBURGH 1756-1823)
SIR HENRY RAEBURN, R.A. (EDINBURGH 1756-1823)
SIR HENRY RAEBURN, R.A. (EDINBURGH 1756-1823)
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SIR HENRY RAEBURN, R.A. (EDINBURGH 1756-1823)

Portrait of William Hunt (c.1796-1854), Pittencrief House, Dunfermline, full-length, seated on a rock in a landscape with a dog

細節
SIR HENRY RAEBURN, R.A. (EDINBURGH 1756-1823)
Portrait of William Hunt (c.1796-1854), Pittencrief House, Dunfermline, full-length, seated on a rock in a landscape with a dog
oil on canvas
78 x 53 ½ in. (198.1 x 135.9 cm.)
來源
The sitter's sister, Christina Harrowar, née Hunt, Inzievar, and by descent to,
Mrs. James Macfarlane of Dunfermline, and by descent to,
James Macfarlane of Dunfermline, Procurator-Fiscal for Fife, and by descent to,
R.H.A. Hunt, Esq., Logie House, Dunfermline.
William Allan Coats (1853-1926), Dalskairth, Dumfrieshire, his deceased sale; Christie's, London, 10 June 1927, lot 122, as 'Portrait of James Harrower of Inzievar' (2600 gns. to Harcourt).
with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, where acquired in May 1974, by the following,
Walter P. Chrysler Jr. (1909-1988), Norfolk; his deceased sale; Sotheby's, New York, 1 June 1989, lot 91, where acquired by the present owner.
出版
W. Armstrong, Sir Henry Raeburn, London and New York, 1901, p. 105.
Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures of the French, Dutch, British and Other Schools, belonging to W.A. Coats, Glasgow, 1904, unpaginated, pl. CXXIX, as a Portrait of James Harrower.
J. Greig, Sir Henry Raeburn, London, 1911, p. 49.
D. Sutton, 'Bright as New Sovereigns', Apollo, April 1978, pp. 240-241, fig. 1.
D. Mackie, Raeburn, Life and Art, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 1993, III, pp. 545-546, under no. 412.
D. Thomas, The Art of Sir Henry Raeburn, exhibition catalogue, Edinburgh, 1997, p. 136, note 2, under no. 39.
展覽
London, Gallery of the Royal Society of British Artists, Pictures and Drawings, Being the entire collection of the late W.A. Coats, Esq., January 1927, no. 139, identified as James Harrower of Inzievar.
Norfolk, The Chrysler Museum of Art, on loan, May 1974.

榮譽呈獻

Laura H. Mathis
Laura H. Mathis VP, Specialist, Head of Sale

拍品專文

The prime version of this portrait, which remains in the collection of the sitter's descendants, reveals changes to the sitter's pose. Increasing transparency of the paint, particularly in the landscape to the left of the sitter, exposes Raeburn's abandoned composition in which the sitter's proper left arm was outstretched and grasping a hunting rifle. Raeburn's final pictorial solution is repeated in the present painting, which descended in the family of William Hunt's sister, until the work entered the collection of William Alan Coats around the turn of the century. William Hunt was the elder son of William Hunt of Pittencreiff, an estate in Dunfermline. He succeeded his father in 1807, which may have spurred the commission for this portrait.

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