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James Milliken Jr.
Jean Etienne Liotard · c. 1761
Provenance
Ownership history
- The sitter's sister, Mrs. Nathaniel Spens (née Milliken; 1741–1774); by descent within the Spens family to Sir Will Spens (1882–1962), Cambridge; by descent (offered for sale , Duke & Sons, Dorchester, Nov. 4, 2004, lot 270, unsold); sold to a private collection, United Kingdom, 2006; sold through Lowell Libson and Jonny Yarker, London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- "The Blue Man," Studio International (Oct. 25, 2004) (ill.).
- Marcel Roethlisberger and Rénee Loche, Liotard: Catalogue, Sources et Correspondance (Doornspijk: Davaco, 2008), vol 1: pp. 565–66, no. 425, fig. 618.
- Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800 (online edition), Liotard, Part IV, p. 7, no. J.49.2111 (ill.).
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