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Property from a New York Collection

James Northcote R.A.

Portrait of a Captain Raynor, R.N., seated on a rocky bank, in a midshipman's uniform

Lot Closed

March 23, 03:46 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a New York Collection

James Northcote R.A.

Plymouth 1746 - 1831 London

Portrait of a Captain Raynor, R.N., seated on a rocky bank, in a midshipman's uniform


signed and dated or inscribed lower center: James Northcote p. 1784

oil on canvas

canvas: 50 ⅛ by 40 ⅛ in.; 127.3 by 101.9 cm.  

framed: 54 ¾ by 45 in.; 139.1 by 114.3 cm.  

Mrs. Jerningham, by 1877;
Newhouse collection (according to a label on the reverse);
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 25 July 1958, lot 141 (as J. Northcote, R.A.);
With Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd, London;
Mr. and Mrs. Kay Kimbell, Fort Worth, Texas, until 1965;
Kimbell Art Foundation, Fort Worth, Texas;
By whom sold, New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 16 June 1976, lot 23;
There acquired by Dr. P.K. Harding, Pennsylvania;
By whom anonymously sold ("The Property of a Pennsylvania Private Collector"), New York, Sotheby's, 11 April 1984, lot 21;
There acquired by a private collector;
With Pawsey & Payne, London;
From whom acquired. 
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of the Works by the Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School, Winter Exhibition, 1877, no. 33 (lent by Mrs. Jerringham). 
Probably, J. Simon, "The Account Book of James Northcote," in The Volume of the Walpole Society, vol. 58, 1995, pp. 50-51, cat. no. 190.