CIRCLE OF GEORGE ROMNEY | PORTRAIT OF EMMA HART, LATER LADY HAMILTON, BUST LENGTH, WITH HEAD TO THE RIGHT AND EYES UPTURNED

By descent to Brigadier Tryon-Wilson, Dallam Tower;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 28 November 2002, lot 181;

There acquired.

J. Bryant, Kenwood, Paintings in the Iveagh Bequest, New Haven and London 2003, pp. 397-398 (as a portrait of Mrs. Tickell);

A. Kidson George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, vol. III, New Haven 2015, pp. 703-4, cat. no. 1512a, reproduced (as a copy after the original in Philadelphia).  

Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Four Kendal Portrait Painters, 6 June - 29 July 1973, no. 24 (as by George Romney).

In composition, this painting compares closely with a portrait by George Romney in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (inv. no. M1928-1-35),¹ identified by some, including Alex Kidson, as Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton, and by others as Mrs. Tickell.

1. Oil on canvas, 61 by 51.1 cm., inv. no. M1928-1-35. See https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/103824.html