Sotheby's: British Pictures: Lot 92
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION SIR HENRY RAEBURN R.A., P.R.S.A. 1756-1823 PORTRAIT OF
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION SIR HENRY RAEBURN R.A., P.R.S.A. 1756-1823 PORTRAIT OF GOVERNOR HENRY HAMILTON
three-quarter length, seated in a landscape, wearing a brown coat with red lapels, white breeches and holding a tricorn hat
oil on canvas
PROVENANCE
Painted for the family;
McCormick Sale, American Art Association, New York, 15th April 1920;
With Knoedler, 1922;
Mr and Mrs van Horn Ely, by whom given to the Phoenix Art Museum;
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 8th November 1995, lot 53
EXHIBITED
Chicago, The Art Institute, 1895 and 1919;
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1898;
Boston, Copley Hall, 1900;
Boston, Art Students Association, no.33
CATALOGUE NOTE
This portrait dates to circa 1785. It has been suggested that the sitter could be Colonel Henry Hamilton, whose portrait by James Tassie, dating from 1786, is in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
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