Isabella Wolff

1. Commissioned by the sitter’s sister, Mrs. Walter (Clarissa) Hill, The Rocklands, near Goodrich, Herefordshire, 1802 or 1803 [see New York 1879]; possibly given to her by the artist, 1815 [information based on a label once on the back of the frame: “Portrait of Mrs. Wolff painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and respectfully presented to her sister Mrs. Hill 1815 T L;” the label was transcribed by Walter Guy Hill, owner of the portrait, in a manuscript account of the history of the work, dated February 29, 1904, copy in curatorial file]; by descent to her son, the Rev. Walter Henry Hill (died 1867); on loan to his sister, Mrs. Robert (Isabella) Coke (died 1870), South Lodge, Newland, Gloucestershire, 1846-70; by descent to the Rev. Hill’s son, Walter Guy Hill (died 1906), Monmouth [see manuscript citied above and Major Peter Hill’s letter, dated January 27, 1982, copy in curatorial file]; probably sold between 1904 and 1906 [the painting was not mentioned in Walter Guy Hill’s will]. Mrs. W. W. Kimball (died 1921), Chicago by 1920; on loan to the Art Institute in 1920-21; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1922.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, Royal Academy, The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1815, cat. 28.
• Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, Exhibition of Eighteenth Century English, May 5–19, 1930, cat. 47.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 198 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, cat. 144.
• Columbus, Ohio, Gallery of Fine Arts, Sir Thomas Lawrence as Painter and Collector, October 7–November 13, 1955, cat. 34 (ill.).
• Worcester, Mass., Art Museum, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Regency Painter: A Loan Exhibition of His Portraits, April 27–June, 1960, cat. 11 (ill.).
• London, Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Academy of Arts Bicentenary Exhibition, 1768–1968, December 14, 1968–March 2, 1969, cat. 181 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, European Portraits 1600–1900 in The Art Institute of Chicago, July 8–September 11, 1978, cat. 13 (ill.).
• London, National Portrait Gallery, Sir Thomas Lawrence 1769-1830, November 9-March 16, 1980, cat 29 (ill.).
• New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, Sir Thomas Lawrence: Portraits of an Age, 1790-1830, February 27-April 25, 1993, cat. 40; Forth Worth, TX, Kimbell Art Museum, May 15-July 11, 1993; Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, July 31-September 26, 1993.
• National Portrait Gallery, London, Thomas Lawrence: Regency, Power, & Brilliance, October 21, 2010- January 23, 2011; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, February 24- June 5, 2011. cat. 35.

• Frances Ann Kemble, Records of a Girlhood (New York, 1879), pp. 210-11.
• Lord Ronald Sutherland, Sir Thomas Lawrence (London, 1900), p. 168.
• George Somes Layard, ed., Sir Thomas Lawrence’s Letter-Bag With Recollections of the Artist by Miss Elizabeth Croft (New York, 1906), pp. 243, 247, ill. opp. p. 147.
• Freeman Marius O’Donoghue, Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum vol. 4 (London, 1914), p. 527.
• Sir Walter Armstrong, Lawrence (London, 1919), pp. 65, 172, pl. 37.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings and Drawings: Part II: Paintings and Drawings (Chicago, 1920), no. 758.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, “Notes: the Kimball Collection,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 14, 5 (1920), p. 73 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings and Drawings: Part II: Paintings and Drawings (Chicago, 1922), no. 758.
• The Art Institute of Chicago Forty-Fourth Annual Report (Chicago, 1922), p. 51 (ill.).
• Marguerite B. Williams, “Valuable Collection of Paintings Added to Chicago’s Art Treasures,” America Today-Fort Dearborn Magazine (Mid-Winter 1924), p. 11 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago 1925), p. 34 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago 1932), p. 88 (ill.).

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