Mrs. William Huskisson (died 1856)

Artist John Hoppner British, 1758–1810

MediumOil (?) on canvas

Dimensions30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Frame: 38 1/2 x 33 x 3 1/4 in. (97.8 x 83.8 x 8.3 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Lillian Emerson Boscowitz

Object numberG.63.37.1

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ProvenanceThe Right Honorable William Huskisson, Esq., 1830 (husband of the sitter); the sitter; sold at Christie’s, May 23, 1903 to E.W. Beckett, MP; purchased by Colnaghi & Co.; James Orrock, RI; Newhouse (date?).

Published ReferencesWilliam McKay and W. Roberts, John Hoppner, R.A. (London: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. and George Bell & Sons, 1909), 131. British Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 2, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1969) no. 83, illus. (b-w). "Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6, no. 4 and 7, no. 1 (1966/67?), mentioned 4, listed 73, illus. (b-w) 51. Emporium (October 1964), 188, illus. 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. 19, illus. (b-w).

Exhibition HistoryCharlotte, 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. 19, illus. (b-w).

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