Catalogue of the Special Loan Exhibition of Old Masters of the British School
Hardcover
1914 · New York
by Duveen Brothers, NY: Jan. 1914
New York: Duveen Brothers, 1914. Hardcover. VG (covers scuffed, smudged & slightly soiled. edge-wear to covers; rubbing to corners. foxing to upper textblock. pgs tanning w/ ink ghosting from opposing pgs/plates.). Ivory cloth w/ gilt printing. [72] pp. 17 bw photogravures. Issued in conjunction with a 1914 exhibition of 17 portraits. Each one appears here fully annotated, and with a brief biography of the sitter, and with illustrations reproduced in Rembrandt photogravures. The portraits are: The Hon. Anne Duncombe, by Thomas Gainsborough ; Lady Elizabeth Taylor, by Sir Joshua Reynolds ; Lady Milnes by George Romney ; Charles Frederick Abel, by Thomas Gainsborough ; Viscount Ligonier, by Thomas Gainsborough ; Viscountess Ligonier, by Thomas Gainsborough ; Lady Petre, by Thomas Gainsborough ; Countess of Harrington (When Miss Fleming), by Sir Joshua Reynolds ; Mrs. Edwin Lascelles (Formerly Lady Fleming, and afterwards Lady Harewood), by Sir Joshua Reynolds ; Caroline, Viscountess Clifden and her sister Lady Elizabeth Spencer, by George Romney ; Mrs. Otway and child, by Sir Joshua Reynolds ; Lady Sarah Bunbury, by Sir Joshua Reynolds ; Lady Elizabeth Conyngham, by Sir Thomas Lawrence ; Lady Maria Conyngham, by Sir Thomas Lawrence ; Mrs. Thomson and her child (Afterwards Lord Sydenham), by Sir Thomas Lawrence ; Mrs. Andrew Hay, by Sir Henry Raeburn ; and Mrs. Jordan, by John Hoppner. (Inventory #: 13614)