The Frankland Sisters

1795

John Hoppner

Artist, British, 1758 - 1810

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 59

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 155 x 125 cm (61 x 49 3/16 in.)
    framed: 182.2 x 151.8 cm (71 3/4 x 59 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1937.1.111

Artwork history & notes

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 Clow Tennant, 1st bt. [1823-1906], The Glen, near Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, Scotland; by descent to his grandson, Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd baron Glenconner [1899-1983], The Glen; 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.

Associated Names

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.

  • 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 page 44

1941

  • Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 100, no. 111.

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

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 61, repro.

  • Gandolfo, Giampaolo et al. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Great Museums of the World. New York, 1968: 14, 146-147, color 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.

  • 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

  • Wilson, John Human. "The Life and Art of John Hoppner (1758-1810)." Ph.D. dissertation, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1991.

  • Kopper, Philip. America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation. New York, 1991: 68, 89, color repro.

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.

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q20180134

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