The Property of a Gentleman
JAMES NORTHCOTE R.A. | GOOD ADVICE FROM AN OLD SERVANT TO THE YOUNG ONES
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The Property of a Gentleman
JAMES NORTHCOTE R.A.
Plymouth 1746 - 1831 London
GOOD ADVICE FROM AN OLD SERVANT TO THE YOUNG ONES
oil on canvas
unframed: 74 x 90.4 cm.; 29⅛ x 35⅝ in.
framed: 86.2 x 103.7 cm.; 34 x 40⅞ in.
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Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 8 November 1995, lot 116, where acquired post-sale by the present owner.
London, Royal Academy, 1796, no. 232;
Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, on loan September 2011 - September 2017.
S. Gwynn, Memorials of an Eighteenth Century Painter (James Northcote), London 1898, p. 274 (as one of ten Kit Cat pictures, being a set containing the 'Progress of an Industrious and Idle Girl', painted in 1794).
Engraved
Gaugain and Hellyer, 1796.
This painting is part of a series of works in the manner of Hogarth by Northcote, which illustrate the 'Progress of an Industrious and an Idle Girl', exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1796.