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Mrs. Hugh Morgan and Her Daughter
Angelica Kauffmann · c. 1771
Provenance
Ownership history
- Probably Mrs. Hugh Morgan, Cottles Town and Cork Abbey, Ireland [according to hand-written label on stretcher]; probably by descent to her daughter Catharine, Mrs. Robert Stearne Tighe, Mitchells Town, Ireland; possibly Tighe family, Ashgrove, Ellesmere, Shropshire, to around 1924 [see Lady Victoria Manners and G. C. Williamson, Angelica Kauffman, R.A.: Her Life and Her Works (New York, 1924), p. 29]. Mrs. Leigh E. Block, Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1960.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Allentown, PA, Art Museum, The World of Benjamin West, 1962, cat. 56.
- Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design, 1690-1840, March 17 - June 7, 2015.
Literature
Published references
- 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. 251–53 (ill.).
- William Laffan and Christopher Monkhouse, Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University Press, 2015) pp. 230.
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