Title:
A lady
Maker:
Unknown; painter
Category:
painting
Name:
painting
Date:
circa 1745 — circa 1750
School/Style:
British
Period:
mid-18th Century
Technique:
painting (image-making)
Material(s):
oil paint; medium
canvas; support
Technique
Description:
oil on canvas
Dimension(s):
height, painted surface, 60.0, cm
width, painted surface, 49.9, cm
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1912; Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Provenance:
Bt. by C.B. Marlay from P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd, London
Inscription(s):
label; verso, stretcher; printed label; 700
; verso, stretcher; ink; Painted by W. (?Hogarth)
label; verso, frame; MS red ink; 8
label; verso; printed exhibition label; R.A. Winter Exhibition, 1908 / Portrait of Polly Peachum / C.B. Marlay Esq. / St. Katherines lodge, / Regents Park
; verso; printed; 13 & 14 Pall Mall East London
label; verso; MS; Portrait of Lavinia / Fenton, Duchess of Bolton / Painted by (?Hogarth) / The property of C. Brinsley Marlay Esq. / St. Katherine's Lodge / Regents Park
label; verso; printed; 63
; verso, stretcher; ink; painted by W. Hogarth
Exhibition(s):
National Portraits. 1867
Venue: South Kensington Museum, London
Catalogue number: 240
Old Masters (1878). 1878
Venue: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Catalogue number: 265
Winter Exhibition (1908). 1908
Venue: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Catalogue number: 103
A century of British art from 1737 to 1837. 1887 - 1888
Venue: Grosvenor Galleries, London?
Catalogue number: 116
Documentation:
Constable, William George. 1927. Catalogue of Pictures in the Marlay Bequest, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press
pl. XXX
Goodison, J.W.. 1977. Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. III, British School.Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Pressp. 34
Accession:
Object Number: M.53
(Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(record id: 800; input: 1999-12-21; modified: 2011-03-03)
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