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Joseph Wright (painter) British, 1734 - 1797 Portrait of a Gentleman, c. 1770-1773 oil on canvas overall: 128 x 102 cm (50 3/8 x 40 3/16 in.) Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1940.1.11 |
Object 5 of 6
Provenance
William Curzon [1836-1916], Lockington Hall, Derbyshire. Purchased 1916, at the dispersal of The Curzon estate, by Mrs. Claire Marion Cox, London, as Richard, Earl Howe, by Copley; consigned 1932 by Mrs. Cox to (The Hackett Galleries), New York; returned to Mrs. Cox and later consigned to (Mrs. Chambers Wood), New York, who sold it 1932 to (M. Knoedler & Co.), New York,[1] from whom it was purchased May 1936 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift to NGA, 1940.
[1] Knoedler's records give the early provenance (Elizabeth Clare to William Campbell, 5 November 1963, in NGA curatorial files). Clare quotes a letter from Mrs. Cox to Mrs. Wood, undated but presumably 1932, in which she states that the 1916 dispersal "was a hurried executors' sale and few persons attended it."
Associated Names
- Cox, Claire Marion, Mrs.
- Curzon, William
- Hackett Galleries, The
- Knoedler & Company, M.
- Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
- Wood, Chambers, Mrs.
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