Robert Brown of Newhall by Sir Henry Raeburn
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Robert Brown of Newhall

Sir Henry Raeburn · 1792

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. By descent in the Brown family to the sitter’s grandson, Horatio Robert Forbes Brown [Greig 1911 gives the owner as H. Brown]. Mrs. William Hayward, New York, by 1924 when she consigned it to Knoedler’s, New York [according to letter of 6 January 1995 from Melissa de Medeiros, Knoedler]; sold by Knoedler to Marshall Field III, Huntington, Long Island, 1924 [according the letter cited above]; Evelyn Marshall Suarez, formerly Mrs. Marshall Field III (died 1979), Easton, near Syosset, Long Island and New York; bequeathed to the Art Institute in memory of her son, Marshall Field IV, 1980.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Knoedler, Loan Exhibition of Pictures by Raeburn, 1925, no. 13.

Literature

Published references

  • Sir Walter Armstrong, Sir Henry Raeburn (London and New York, 1901), p. 97.
  • James Greig, Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A.: His Life and Works with a Catalogue of his Pictures (London, 1911), p. 39
  • Richard Pratt, David Adler (New York, 1970), p. 164, pl. 124.

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