Portrait of Flora MacDonald (1722–1790)
Artist
Joseph Highmore
British, 1692–1780
Datecirca 1747–1750
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Frame: 36 7/8 x 31 15/16 x 2 in. (93.7 x 81.1 x 5.1 cm)
Frame: 36 7/8 x 31 15/16 x 2 in. (93.7 x 81.1 x 5.1 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineAcquired by subscription under the auspices of the North Carolina State Art Society
Object numberG.48.4.1
On View
Not on view[1] Married to Benjamin Cuff Greenhill of Knowle Hall, 1829.
[2] Buyer identified in annotated version of Sotheby's catalogue, NCMA Library.
[3] Agnew & Sons label on central stretcher bar.Published References"Catalogue of Drawings and Pictures by Old Masters Including the Properties of Mrs. Hatfield [and others]" (auction catalogue) (London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, January 31, 1924), lot 119, as Joseph Highmore, Portrait of a Lady, said to be Flora Macdonald.
W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 84, illus. (b-w).
Carolina Charter Tercentenary Exhibition (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1963), cat. no. 78, illus. (b-w).
Charles W. Stanford, Jr., Selections from British and American Painting and Sculpture (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), no. 4, illus. (b-w).
British Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 2, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1969), no. 78, illus. (b-w).
"Portrait on Loan," North Carolina Museum of Art Calendar 13, no. 5 (February 1970), briefly discussed and illus. (b-w) unnumbered page.
The Mint Museum of Art Presents British Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue) (Charlotte: Mint Museum of Art, 1973), cat. no. 6, illus. (b-w).
North Carolina Museum of Art Calendar (June, 1979), illus. (b-w) unnumbered page.
Alison Lewis, "James Highmore: 1692-1780," Ph.D. dissertation (Harvard University, 1975), 454-57, illus. fig. 108, as Highmore, but sitter is not Flora MacDonald].
Warren Mild, Joseph Highmore of Hoborn Row (Ardmore, PA, 1990).
John J. Toffey, A Woman Nobly Planned (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1997), illus. (b-w) 100.
Reign & Rebellion: Special Exhibition at Jamestown Settlement and the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown (Williamsburg, VA: The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, 2023), 76 (illus color).Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Carolina Charter Tercentenary Exhibition," March 23-April 28, 1963, cat. no. 78, illus. (b-w).
Birmingham, AL, Birmingham Museum of Art, "British Painting, 1640-1840," March, 1970.
Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art, "The Mint Museum of Art Presents British Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," September 16-December 30, 1973, cat. no. 6, illus. (b-w).
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "British Portraits to 1900," traveling exhibition.
Fayetteville, NC, Arsenal House, February 25-March 31, 1976 (connected with Bicentennial Celebrations).
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of History, "North Carolina Legends," April-November, 2000.
Yorktown, VA, American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, "Reign & Rebellion," November 5, 2022 - September 19, 2023.
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