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Lot 22
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Allan Ramsay

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Description

  • Allan Ramsay
  • Portrait of Mrs. Mary Wilbraham

  • three quarter length, standing in a landscape, wearing a white satin gown and blue cloak
    signed and dated lower right A. Ramsay  1744.

  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Sir John Foley Grey, Bart., Enville Hall, Stourbridge;
His sale, London, Christie's, June 15, 1928, lot 77, to Ellis & Smith;
With Ellis & Smith, London;
Craig Harvey, 1928;
With Arthur Tooth & Sons, London;
Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Gentleman"), London, Christie's, June 27, 1980, lot 114, to Leggatt;
With Leggatt Bros., London;
Dr. Daniel Mclean McDonald;
Thence by descent in the family.

Literature

A. Smart, Allan Ramsay, A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, New Haven 1999, p. 194, cat. no. 538, reproduced fig. 175.

Catalogue Note

The sitter was the daughter of Thomas Hunt of Mollington, Cheshire and Mary Vere; in 1740 she married Roger Wilbraham, the elder son of Randle Wilbraham of Townsend House, Nantwich, Cheshire.  Portraits of her brothers, George and Thomas, were also painted by Ramsay (see Literature below, cat. nos. 280 and 282).  A portrait of her brother, George, by Thomas Hudson is offered in this sale (see previous lot).

A chalk drawing by Ramsay in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (D.2039 verso) includes two studies for Mrs. Wilbraham's right hand (op.cit., reproduced fig. 622).