Fashionable Figures, with Two Women Holding Fans

1. With 1925.1682b, part of a decorative mural scheme in the main staircase of no. 75 Dean Street, Soho, London, built by builder-carpenter Thomas Richmond and first occupied by Bulstrode Peachey Knight, who leased the house from 1733, but probably first took occupancy in 1735 [see Sheppard 1966, vol. 33, pp. 221-22; the erroneous association of the staircase decoration and later the house itself with Sir James Thornhill (died 1734) and his son-in-law William Hogarth, goes back to the early 19th century, see Warner 1996, p. ]; the house was bought by H.H. Mulliner in 1912, and the mural decoration removed in 1919 in preparation for demolition of the house, which took place in 1923 [Sheppard 1966, vol. 33, pp. 223-24]; acquired with most of the interior fittings of the house by Monday, Kern, and Herbert, London, 1919 [see the Times (London), 1919]. W. and J. Sloane and Co., New York, by 1921, to 1925 [W. and J. Sloane 1921 and de Brie 1925]; bought by Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Crane, together with many fittings of the house, 1925; given to the Art Institute, 1925 (the staircase, installed at the Art Institute without the murals in the late 1940s, was sold at Sotheby’s, New York, October 18, 1997, no. 391).

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• Richard Redgrave and Samuel Redgrave, A Century of Painters of the English School, vol. 1, London, 1866, pp. 59-61; 2nd ed., 1890, pp. 24-25.
• J. B., “Possible Hogarth Paintings in a Soho House,” Manchester Guardian, December 16, 1912.
• “A Real Antique in Soho,” Spectator (London), no. 4,408 (December 21, 1912,), pp. 1052-53.
• J. M. W. Halley, “Sir James Thornhill’s House in Soho,” Architectural Review 33 (1913), pp. 52-54, ill.
• “A Georgian House in Danger: Thornhill and Hogarth,” Times (London), January 9, 1914, p. 9.
• Gilbert R. Redgrave, “A Georgian House in Danger: The Wall-Paintings Fifty Years Ago,” letter to the editor, Times (London), January 13, 1914, p. 10.
• W. J. Fraser, “A Georgian House in Danger: Evidence from Leases,” letter to the editor, Times (London), January 14, 1914, p. 11.
• “The Georgian House in Soho: Need for Instant Action,” Times (London), January 15, 1914, p. 9.
• “The Georgian House in Soho: Contract Not Yet Signed: Drawings of the Door and Staircase,” Times (London), January 16, 1914, p. 47.
• Guy Francis Laking, letter to the editor, Times (London), January 16, 1914, p. 47.
• “Georgian House Saved: Intervention of the Office of Works,” Times (London), January 17, 1914, p. 8.
• “The Georgian House in Soho: Position of the Owner,” Times (London), January 19, 1914, p. 5.

The Birth of Bacchus

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Family in a Room

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Portrait of a Lady, Possibly of the Stanley Family

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Portrait of a Mother and Child

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Double Portrait: Two Women

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Articulated Dragon

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Fashionable Figures, with a Man in Turkish Costume

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The Arms of the Family Kress von Kressenstein

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