Old Masters including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection
Old Masters including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection
The Property of an English Private Collector
Lot Closed
May 7, 02:29 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
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The Property of an English Private Collector
GEORGE ROMNEY
Dalton 1734 - 1802 Kendal
PORTRAIT OF MISS ELIZABETH TIGHE (1774 -1857), HALF-LENGTH, WEARING A WHITE DRESS
oil on canvas
unframed: 81 x 66 cm.; 31⅞ x 24 in.
framed: 108 x 92.5 cm.; 42 1/2 x 36 3/8 in.
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By descent from the sitter to her grandson, T.W. Webber, of Kellyville, Athy, Ireland;
By descent to Colonel O. Webber;
From whom acquired by Thomas Agnew & Sons, London;
By whom sold to Charles Sedelmeyer, by 1907;
With Newhouse Galleries, New York;
Mr and Mrs Kay Kimbell, New York;
Their posthumous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 20-23 April 1983, lot 9;
Private collection, USA;
Whence sold ('The Property of a Private American Collection'), London, Sotheby's, 30 October 2008, lot 187.
The Sphere, 14 July 1900, reproduced p. 20;
H. Ward and W. Roberts, Romney, London 1904, vol. II, p. 159;
A. Kidson, George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, vol. II, New Haven and London 2015, p. 579, cat. no. 1302, reproduced in colour.