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Richard Snow

Pond, Arthur (painter)

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Title/s

Richard Snow

Maker/s

Pond, Arthur (painter) [ULAN info: British artist, c.1705-1758]

Category

painting

Name

painting

School/Style

British

Technique Description

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 75.2 cm
width: 62.9 cm

Date

1738

Provenance

given: The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum 1935 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints)

Dorothea Snow, Lady Harrison; descended to the daughters of Archdeacon Harrison, Brixham; their (anon.) sale, Christie's, 14 December 1934 (42), bt. Spink; bt. from Spink & Son, London, 1935

Inscriptions/Marks

  1. signature
    Position: lower right
    Method:
    Content: 'Pond. pinxit.
  2. date
    Position: lower right
    Method:
    Content: 1738

  3. Position: lower left
    Method:
    Content: 'Rich: Snow. Esq Æt. 85
  4. label
    Position: verso, stretcher
    Method: MS
    Content: Portrait of Richard Snow Esq: of Clipsham / Co: Rutland Barrister at Law father of Lady Harrison. Painted by Arthur Pond (1705-1758)

Documentation

  1. (1935) Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Twenty-seventh Annual Report, for the Year 1935, Cambridge (Cambs.)
    [comments: reproduced]
  2. Goodison, J.W. (1977) Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. III, British School, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: 194]

Accession Number

1752 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(Reference Number: 3772; Input Date: 2000-04-06 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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