Mrs. George Hill
c. 1790/1800
Artist, Scottish, 1756 - 1823
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 96.9 x 76.6 cm (38 1/8 x 30 3/16 in.)
framed: 120.3 x 100.3 x 8.9 cm (47 3/8 x 39 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1970.17.130
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Painted for the Reverend George Hill [1750-1819], St. Andrews, Scotland; by descent to John Sheriff Hill [d. 1900], Dingwall, Inverness; (sale, Fraser, Inverness, 1900); bought by (Wallis & Son, London); (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), by 1911;[1] purchased by 1925[2] by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; gift by 1937 to his daughter, Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York; bequest 1970 to NGA.
[1] James Greig, Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A.: His Life and Works, London, 1911: 48.
[2] Mellon owned the painting by the time he lent it to the exhibition Paintings by Old Masters from Pittsburgh Collections, shown at the Carnegie Institute in 1925.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1925
Paintings by Old Masters from Pittsburgh Collections, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1925, no. 58.
Bibliography
1901
Armstrong, Sir Walter. Sir Henry Raeburn. London, 1901: 104.
1911
Greig, James. Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A.: His Life and His Works. London, 1911: 48.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 278, repro.
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 370, no. 527, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 323, 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: 196-197, repro. 197.
Wikidata ID
Q20179845