Phineas Borret's Farm near Saffron Walden by Thomas Girtin
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Phineas Borret's Farm near Saffron Walden

Thomas Girtin · 1802

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. 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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