Edward Bootle Wilbraham, Baron Skelmersdale
George Romney, English, 1734 - 1802
late 18th century
Oil on canvas
Overall: 50 1/4 × 40 1/2 in. (127.7 × 102.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Julia and Richard H. Rush, Class of 1937, Tuck 1938
P.982.29
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Label, on reverse: LEGER GALLERIES; label, on reverse: 415: label, on reverse: 93
Exhibition History
The Richard H. Rush Collection, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, New York, February 25-April 25, 1971, no. 43.
Publication History
"The Richard H. Rush Collection", Finch College Museum of Art, New York, New York, 1971, no. 43.
T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, pp. 76-77, ill. p.77, no. 33.
Provenance
Sotheby's, November 20, 1963, lot 75; Leger Galleries, London; Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Villa Favorita, Castagnola, Lugano, Switzerland; Julia and Richard H. Rush (1915-2011); given to present collection, 1982.
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