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Sir Brooke Boothby (1744–1824)

Artist Sir Henry Raeburn British, 1756–1823

Datecirca 1790–1800

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions29 1/2 x 24 1/2 in. (74.9 x 62.2 cm)
Frame: 37 1/4 x 32 1/4 x 2 1/8 in. (94.6 x 81.9 x 5.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Jennette Hartshorn Campbell in memory of her father, Crawford Jennings Campbell

Object number2011.7

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Provenance[Presumably the sitter, Staffordshire;] James Thomson Gibson-Craig, Esq. (1799-1886), Edinburgh; with Dowell's Auction House, 18 George Street, Edinburgh, 1887; Lord Melville [Henry Dundas, 5th Viscount Melville (1835-1904) (son of Rev. Charles Dundas and Louisa Maria Boothby)?], Melville Castle, Lasswade, Midlothian, Scot.; with M. Knoedler & Co., New York; Mae Caldwell Manwaring Plant Hayward (Mrs. John Edward) Rovensky (d. 1956), New York; Mae. C. Rovensky Sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, January 15-19, 1957, lot 464; sold to Dr. Walter J. Craig, Albany, NY; Craig Sale, Garrison-on-the-Hudson, NY, O. Rundle Gilbert, April 26-27, 1963, lot 139 [see Schenectady Gazette, April 24, 1963, p. 6]; sold to Crawford Jennings Campbell and his wife Catherine Campbell, Loudonville (Albany), NY; by descent to their daughter, Jennette Hartshorn Campbell (Skinner), Raleigh, NC, December 1975; given to NCMA, 2010.Published ReferencesWilliam Raeburn Andrew, Life of Sir Henry Raeburn, R. A. (London, 1886), no. 25.

Sir Walter Armstrong, Sir Henry Raeburn (London, 1901), 96.

Edward Pinnington, Sir Henry Raeburn, R. A. (London, 1904), no. 53.

James Grieg, Sir Henry Raeburn, R. A., His Life and Works with a Catalogue of his Pictures (London, 1911), 39.
Exhibition HistoryEdinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, "Works of Deceased and Living Scottish Artists," October 1863, no. 122.

Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, "Exhibition of the Works of Sir Henry Raeburn, R. A.," October-November 1876, no. 225.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “History and Mystery: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection,” August 6, 2016–June 25, 2017. Object Rights Statement

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