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Anna Maria Dashwood, later Marchioness of Ely

Sir Thomas Lawrence · c. 1805

Provenance

Ownership history

Presumably John Loftus, 2nd Marquess of Ely (died 1845), husband of the sitter; by descent to John Henry Loftus, 5th Marquess of Ely; his sale Christie’s, London, July 25, 1891, lot 68 for £241.10s to Agnew [price and buyer according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague, copy in curatorial file]; Thomas Agnew & Sons, London; sold to T. H. Ismay, June 2, 1892 [according to a letter from Gabriel M. Naughton, Agnew’s, to Malcolm Warner dated March 19, 1993, copy in curatorial file]; evidently Ismay sold it back to Agnew almost immediately, in July 1892 [according to Agnew stock book, no. 6529, located in the Getty Research Institute; copy in curatorial file, kindly provided by Derek Quezada]; sold by Agnew’s to R. Hall McCormick (died 1917), Chicago, September 20, 1892 [see stock book cited above]; his estate sale, American Art Galleries, New York, April 15, 1920, lot 62 for $18,000 to “Seaman, agent” [price and buyer according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Art Institute, copy in curatorial file]. Alice H. Brown (Mrs. Marshall Ludington Brown, formerly Mrs. Cyrus McCormick II; died 1950); given to the Art Institute from her estate, 1951 [according to the Committee on Painting and Sculpture meeting notes, April 19, 1951, copy in curatorial file].

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Art Institute of Chicago, Art Collection of Mr. R. Hall McCormick, January 1895, p. 51, no cat. no.
Boston, Family Society of Boston, Loan Collection of Portraits for the Benefit of the Associated Charities and the North End Union, March 2–23, 1896, cat. 153.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Catalogue, Biographical and Descriptive of the Collection of Pictures Principally of the English School: Loaned to the Carnegie Institute by R. Hall McCormick, Esq. 1898, pp. 88, 89 (ill.).
Boston, Copley Hall, Boston Art Students’ Association, Exhibition of the R. Hall McCormick Collection of Paintings Chiefly of the English School, 1900, cat. 42.
Art Institute of Chicago, Collection of Paintings Belonging to R. Hall McCormick, Esq., Principally of the English School, 1900, p. 41, cat. 41.
Art Institute of Chicago, Old English Paintings: The Collection of R. Hall McCormick, Chicago, August 5–October 8, 1905, cat. 34.

Literature

R. Hall McCormick, Catalogue, Biographical and Descriptive of the Collection of Pictures, Principally of the English School, of R. Hall McCormick, Esq., Chicago (Chicago: R. Hall McCormick, 1897), pp. 88, 89 (ill.).
William Coolidge Lane and Nina E. Browne, eds., A.L.A Portrait Index (Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1906), p. 473.
“Paintings Sold at Auction: Season of 1919–1920,” in American Art Annual 17 (Washington, D.C.: The American Federation of Arts, 1921), p. 308.
John Drury, Old Chicago Houses (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1941), pp. 107–108; reprinted (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975 and 1976).
Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1954), pp. 34, 69, no. 40.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 256.
Kenneth Garlick, “A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, and Pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence,” Walpole Society 39 (1964), p. 75.
John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America (New York: Abbeville Press, 1979), p. 192.
Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence: A Complete Catalogue of the Oil Paintings (Oxford: Phaidon, 1989), p. 184, no. 275, ill.

Comparables

[Group of 42 Stereograph Views From the London Stereoscopic Company, 1860-1870, Many Hand-Colored to Illustrate Books]