
Phineas Borret's Farm near Saffron Walden
Thomas Girtin · 1802
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist to Sir John Ramsden [invoice]; by descent to Mrs. Gordon-Duff-Pennington, Muncaster Castle, 1995 [invoice]. Sold by Leger Galleries, London, to the Art Institute, 1995.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "In Context: Recent Acquisitions to the Regenstein Collection,
- Thomas Gainsborough and Eighteenth-century Portraits of the Common Man," 20 February-28 April 1995.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Building a Collection: New Acquisitions and Promised Gifts of British Art," May 1–August 1, 2004, checklist 10.
Literature
Published references
- "Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975,' The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), pp. 62-63 (ill.).
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument:’ The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), p. 12.
- Greg Smith, Thomas Girtin and the Art of Watercolour (London, 2002).
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