Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Property of a lady
Lot Closed
July 29, 02:37 PM GMT
Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a lady
JOHN DOWNMAN, A.R.A.
Ruabon, N. Wales 1750 - 1824 Wrexham
PORTRAIT OF MRS HAY, NÉE ARABELLA CAMPBELL (1774-1819), CIRCA 1805
Black chalk and stump on wove paper
framed: 437 by 3285 mm
unframed: 217 by 172 mm
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With Agnew's, London;
with Abbott & Holder, London, by 1992;
where purchased by the present owner
Probably, G.C. Williamson, John Downman A.R.A., His Life and Works, London, 1907, p. LX, fourth series, volume V, no. 16, as 'Two of the Lady of General Hay, Commander of Maidstone Barracks, 1805'
The sitter was the daughter of Lt. Col. Duncan Campbell of Killiechronan on the Isle of Mull and Edeanor Baker of Fort Edward, New York. She was born in New York in 1774 but had returned to Britain by 1788, the year she married the Scottish army officer James Hay (1761-1837). Her husband was later promoted to the rank of full General and knighted by the King. Long after Arabella's death in 1819, he married, as his second wife, Mary Elizabeth Guthrie.
We are grateful to Neil Jeffares for his help in cataloguing this lot.