Mrs. Francis Russell by George Romney
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Mrs. Francis Russell

George Romney · 1785–87

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Francis Russell, from 1787 [according to Ward and Roberts 1904]. Francis C. Simpson; sold Christie’s, London, May 8, 1897, lot 45, ill., to Charles Wertheimer for 2,000 gns [annotated sale catalogue, Christie’s, London]. Mrs. W. W. Kimball, Chicago (died 1921); on loan to the Art Institute from 1920; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1922.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 204.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 152, pl. 27.

Literature

Published references

  • W. Roberts, “The Art Sales of 1897,” Magazine of Art 21 (1898), pp. 139, 140, ill.
  • Humphrey Ward and W. Roberts, Romney, a Biographical and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonné of his Work (London, 1904), vol. 1, p. 106, vol.2, pp. 137-38.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings (Chicago, 1920), p. 60, no. 766.
  • “The Kimball Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 14, 5 (1920), p. 72, ill., 77.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings (Chicago, 1923), p. 65, 766.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1925), pp. 32, ill., 151.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), pp. 84, ill., 169.
  • C. Collins Baker, British Painting (London, 1933), p. 285.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 402-3.
  • Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo 84 (September, 1966), p. 195.
  • Malcolm Warner in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1996), pp. 288-91, ill.

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