James Holland, O.W.S.

By descent through the Langford Family 
Sale: Sotheby's, London, July 12, 1989, lot 69, illustrated
Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York
Acquired from the above 

Denver, The Denver Art Museum, 600 Years of British Painting: The Berger Collection at the Denver Art Museum, 10 October 1998 - 28 March 1999

600 Years of British Painting: The Berger Collection at the Denver Art Museum, Denver 1998, p. 191, illustrated

Lined. The picture surface presents well overall, aside from a web of widely patterned craquelure, evident especially in the upper half of the work. Under UV: there are scattered areas of retouching visible in the door at left and dots and dashes throughout the painting at upper right. Additional, lightly applied retouching to the young girl's face and the older woman's face and costume. Small scattered dots and dashes of retouching visible scattered throughout the work. When offered in 1989, the work had a label attached to the reverse, reading: Sept? 1st 1841 / Very Many thanks my dear Mr Langford / for the Draft you have just / sent me for £50 the price / of your Picture of Portraits of yourself Mr Langford & / Mifs / Believe me always / my dear Mr Langford / your oblig / James Holland / To Edward W Langford. Esq,
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This work depicts Edward William Langford of Blackheath with his wife and their daughter Anne Elizabeth, who subsequently married Charles Shirreff in 1852.