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Robert Brown of Newhall
Sir Henry Raeburn · 1792
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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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