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Sir Brooke Boothby (1744–1824)
Sir Brooke Boothby (1744–1824)

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
On View
Not on view
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.
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