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underlined in red: MR. H. C. FRICK, OF PITTSBURGH, PA.
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underlined in red: THEODORE ROUSSEAU. "The Village of Becquigny." 39 3/8 x 25 x 1/8 P.
Signed to the right: "Theo. Rousseau."
From the M. F. Hartmann Collection.
Thomson's "The Barbizon School," page 139.
Illustrated page 137, Salon of 1864.
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in graphite: ?
underlined in red: ALBERT CUYP. "Herdsman & Cows on a River Bank." 29 1/4 x 19 5/8 P.
Signed and dated.
Smith's catalogue raisonne vol. V, No. 180, Page 335. From the celebrated Deepdene collection belonging to Lord Francis Hope.
[[underlined in red: SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. "Lady Margaret Beaumont." 25 1/8 x 30 1/8 C. P. R. A. Painted 1778 & 9. Margaret, daughter of John Willes, of Astrop, Co. of Northampton, and grand daughter of Lord Chief Justice Willes; M. P. for Bier Alston 1790. Married 6 May 1778, Sir John Howland Beaumont, 7th Bart., died 1829. Sat in 1778 and March 1779. Exhibited at the Royal Academy 1780, No. 12.
" " British Institutions 1813, " 107. " " " " 1858, " 165. " " Nat. Port. Exhibit 1867, " 548. " " Grosvenor Gallery, 1884, " 183
One of the seven pictures exhibited by Reynolds at the first exhibition Somerset House. Tom Taylor's "Life of Reynolds, Vol. 2, pages, 224, 228, underlined: 280, 287, and 293.
"Some of his most charming female heads are of this period, as Lady Beaumont, the beautiful wife of his friend Sir George."---Tom Taylor, Vol. 2, page 224.
"Lady Beaumont, the amicable and accomplished wife of Sir George."---Tom Taylor, Vol. 2, page 287.
"Two beautiful ladies, portraits by Reynolds, belong to this year; that of Lady Beaumont, wife of the artistic baronet, and that of Mrs. Payne Gallway, carrying her little boy pick-a-pack."---"Sir Joshua Reynolds," by Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, F.S.A., page 86. Sir Walter Armstrong's "Sir Joshua Reynolds," pages 105, 118, and 193.
Engraved by J. R. Smith 1780 & S. W. Reynolds.
Morning Chronicle,-1780,-No. 12.---"The portrait of Lady Beaumont, which has a wonderful effect, excited fresh astonishment at the magic power of the pencil of this artist.