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Double Portrait: Two Women
British · c. 1845
Provenance
Ownership history
- Adams Gallery, London, by 1936 [according to 1936 exh. cat.]. E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, 1936; sold to Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester in 1936 [according to Charles H. Worcester’s letter to Robert Harshe dated October 15, 1936, in curatorial file]; on loan at the Art Institute in 1936; given to the Art Institute, 1937.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London, Adams Gallery, Paintings by William Etty, May-June 1936, cat. 9 (ill.), as William Etty.
- Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, A Survey of British Painting, May 10-June 12, 1938, cat. 71, as William Etty.
- Milwaukee Institute of Art, Three Centuries of British Painting, October 10-December 10, 1946, no cat. (see Milwaukee Art Institute, Gallery Notes 19, 2 (November 1946), pp. 1–2.
Literature
Published references
- Daniel Catton Rich, Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings (Chicago, 1938), p. 63, cat. 58.
- Art Instititute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 156.
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