Eleanor Margaret Gibson-Carmichael

1. Commissioned by the sitter’s father, Sir John Gibson-Carmichael of Skirling, sixth Bt. (died 1803); by descent to Sir Thomas David Gibson-Carmichael, eleventh Bt., first baron Carmichael (died 1926); sold Sotheby’s, London, June 8-10, 1926, no. 496, ill., to Duveen, Paris and New York, for £8,800 [annotated copy of the sale catalogue, Ryerson Library, Art Institute of Chicago]. Mrs. John R. Thompson, Sr., Chicago, by 1930 [Frankfurter 1930]; sold Parke-Bernet, New York, January 15, 1944, no. 33, ill., to her daughter, Florence Thompson Thomas (died 1972), Palm Beach, Florida; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1973.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, Colnaghi, Pictures of the Early English and Other Schools in Aid of King Edward’s Hospital Fund, 1905, no. 8.

• Sir Walter Armstrong, Sir Henry Raeburn (London and New York, 1901), pp. 92, ill., 98.
• James Greig, Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A.: His Life and Works with a Catalogue of His Pictures (London, 1911), pp. 5, ill., 38, 41.
• Alfred M. Frankfurter, “Paintings by Raeburn in America,” Antiquarian 14, 1 (1930), p. 33, ill.
• John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America (New York, 1979), p. 219.
• Malcolm Warner in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1996), pp. 266-68, ill.

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Adam Rolland of Gask II

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Robert Brown of Newhall

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Rev. Henry Moncrief Wellwood

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Sir Walter Scott Bart

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Portrait Bust of a Man

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