National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: The Frankland Sisters
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Inscription

by later hand, lower left: MARIANNE & AMELIA / DAUGHTERS OF SIR T. FRANKLAND OB 1795 & 1800; lower right: HOPNER [sic]

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Provenance

Painted for the sitters' father, Sir Thomas Frankland, 6th Bt. [1750-1831], Thirkleby, Yorkshire; by descent to his granddaughter, Rosalind Alicia Frankland-Russel-Astley [d. 1900], Chequers Court, Buckinghamshire; sold c. 1896 to (Thos. Agnew & Sons, London); purchased 1896 by John H. McFadden. Presumably sold back to (Thos. Agnew & Sons, London);[1] purchased 1898 by Sir Charles Tennant, Bt. [1823-1906], Glen, Innerleithen, Peebles, Scotland; by descent to his grandson, Christopher, 2nd Baron Glenconner [b. 1899]; sold July 1923 to (Charles Carstairs for M. Knoedler & Co., London and New York);[2] purchased November 1923 by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; deeded December 1934 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA.

[1] Geoffrey (later Sir Geoffrey) Agnew, Agnew's 1817-1967, London, 1967, 36, pl. The plate records J.H. McFadden and Sir Charles Tennant as the owners in 1896 and 1898 respectively.

[2] James Dugdale, "Sir Charles Tennant: the Story of a Victorian Collector," Connoisseur 178 (1971), 11-12. A group of ten paintings was purchased by Carstairs in July 1923 and was exhibited in 1924 at Knoedler's new headquarters in New York, whence the Hoppner was purchased by Andrew Mellon shortly before the exhibition.

Exhibition History

1795
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1795, no. 90, as Portraits of Young Ladies.
1896
Twenty Masterpieces of the English School, Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London, 1896, no. 10.
1902
Paintings by French and British Artists of the 18th Century, Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, 1902, no. 109.
1903
Loan Collection of Portraits, City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, 1903, no. 32.
1904
Inaugural Exhibition of Pictures, Laing Art Gallery, New castle-upon-Tyne, 1904, no. 20.
1906
Works by the Old Masters and Deceased Masters of the British School, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1906, no. 79.
1908
Franco-British Exhibition, Fine Art Palace, London, 1908, no. 74 (illustrated review, repro, cover, 25).
1924
Ten Paintings from the Tennant-Glenconner Collection, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, 1924, no. 1.

Bibliography

1795
Morning Post, 27 May 1795.
1795
St. James's Chronicle, 5-7 May 1795.
1909
McKay, William and William Roberts. John Hoppner, R.A.. London, 1909: vii, 87-88, repro. opp. 86; Supplement, 1914.
1910
Catalogue of Pictures in the Tennant Gallery 34 Queen Anne's Gate, S.W.. London, n.d. [c.1910]: 7, 19, color frontispiece.
1937
Cortissoz, Royal. An Introduction to the Mellon Collection. Boston, 1937: repro. opposite p. 44
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 100.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 241, repro. 16.
1949
Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 121, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 69
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 61, repro.
1971
Dugdale, James. "Sir Charles Tennant: the Story of a Victorian Collector." The Connoisseur 178 (1971): 2, color repro., 6, 12.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 178, repro.
1975
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: no. 521, color repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 365, no. 514, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 206, repro.
1991
Kopper, Philip. America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation. New York, 1991: 68, 89, color repro.
1991
Wilson, John Human. "The Life and Art of John Hoppner (1758-1810)." Ph.D. diss., Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1991.
1992
Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 134-136, color repro. 135.

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