John Eldred
c. 1670/1680
Painter, English, 1646 - 1691
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.)
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Accession
1988.20.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
By descent to Sir John Ruggles-Brise, Bt. [b. 1908], Spains Hall, Finchingfield, Essex (sale, Sotheby's, 21 January 1976, no. 87 [with a portrait of his grandson's wife, Susannah Rawston, wrongly described as his own wife], as Kneller, bought in). Purchased by private treaty after the sale by John N. Estabrook, Chicago; by bequest to NGA from the Estate of John Nichols Estabrook, 1988.[1]
[1] Presented to NGA in 1988 by Estabrook's sister, Laura Estabrook Romine, through the estate executors.
Associated Names
Bibliography
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: 226-228, repro. 227.
Wikidata ID
Q20177627