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Chair

Lewis Nockalls Cottingham · 1844

Provenance

Ownership history

Commissioned by William Brougham and Henry Brougham, first Baron Brougham and Vaux, Brougham Hall, Westmorland, England, 1844 [one of twenty chairs Samuel Luke Pratt delivered to Lord William Brougham on August 6, 1844, according to Lord Brougham’s contemporaneous diary entry]; by descent to the Barons of Brougham and Vaux, 1868 to 1932. Probably sold Garland Smith and Co., Mount Street, London, June 21, 1932, possibly lot 929 or 930. H. Blairman and Sons, London, by 1991. Private collection, by 2017; sold to Martin Levy, London, 2017; offered to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

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