The Principal Contents of Corby Castle, Cumbria
Sir Henry Raeburn R.A., P.R.S.A.
Portrait of William (b. c. 1815) and Charles Thorold Wood (1817–1849), both full-length, one holding a basket, the other with a garland of flowers, in a landscape, both wearing yellow
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The Principal Contents of Corby Castle, Cumbria
Sir Henry Raeburn R.A., P.R.S.A.
Edinburgh 1756–1823
Portrait of William (b. c. 1815) and Charles Thorold Wood (1817–1849), both full-length, one holding a basket, the other with a garland of flowers, in a landscape, both wearing yellow
inscribed lower right: William Thorold Wood / Charles Thorold Wood.
oil on canvas
unframed: 128.2 x 101.3 cm.; 50½ x 39⅞ in.
framed: 150.6 x 126.4 cm.; 59¼ x 49¾ in.
A.M. Lever;
By whom sold, London, Christie’s, 16 January 1925, lot 157 (as Sir H. Raeburn, R.A.), for £99 15s, to Nicholson;
With the Erich Gallery, New York, 1925;
With A.L. Nicholson, New York, by 1933;
By whom sold (‘Property of Arthur L. Nicholson’), New York, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, 18 May 1933, lot 30 (as Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A.);
With A.L. Nicholson, London, by 1935 (according to a mount at the Witt Library);
Private collection, New York;
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby’s, 25–26 February 1944, lot 331 (as Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A.);
With Julius H. Weitzner, New York (according to a mount at the Witt Library);
Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 30 November 1995, lot 30 (as Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A.), for £7,500;
Where acquired.
D. Mackie, Complete Catalogue of Raeburn, Life and Art, unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1994, part IV, p. 913, no. 763.
The sitters are two sons of Charles Thorold Wood (1777–1852), of Thoresby, Lincolnshire. This portrait is likely one of a pair, the other of which remains in the family. There also exists a letter penned by the boys' mother, dated Edinburgh 1820, which records the children sitting for Henry Raeburn.
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