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Allan Ramsay: Portrait of Horace Walpole's Nieces: The Honorable Laura Keppel and Charlotte, Lady Huntingtower  wikidata:Q20537290 reasonator:Q20537290
Artist
Allan Ramsay  (1713–1784)  wikidata:Q560792
 
Allan Ramsay
Description British painter and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death 13 October 1713 / 1713 Edit this at Wikidata 10 August 1784 / 1784 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Edinburgh Dover
Work period 1729 Edit this at Wikidata–1773 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
London, Rome, Edinburgh
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creator QS:P170,Q560792
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Title
Portrait of Horace Walpole's Nieces: The Honorable Laura Keppel and Charlotte, Lady Huntingtower Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Portrait of Horace Walpole's Nieces: The Honorable Laura Keppel and Charlotte, Lady Huntingtower Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Portrait of Horace Walpole's Nieces: The Honorable Laura Keppel and Charlotte, Lady Huntingtower Edit this at Wikidata"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people
Date 1765 Edit this at Wikidata
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 156.2 cm (61.4 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 137.2 cm (54 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+156.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+137.2U174728
institution QS:P195,Q49133
Current location
Alan and Simone Hartman Galleries (Gallery 241B)
Accession number
2009.2783 (Museum of Fine Arts Boston) Edit this at Wikidata
Object history

Provenance:

  • About 1765, commissioned by Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (b. 1717 - d. 1797) for Strawberry Hill, Twickenham [see note 1];
  • May 18, 1842, Strawberry Hill sale, Robins, London, lot 51, bought in by George Edward Waldegrave, 7th Earl Waldegrave (b. 1816 - d. 1846), Chewton Priory, Bath [see note 2];
  • February 10, 1900, posthumous Earl Waldegrave sale, Christie's, London, lot 48, to Thos. Agnew and Sons, London (stock no. 9225);
  • May 30, 1901, sold by Agnew to Nathaniel Thayer (b. 1851 - d. 1911), Boston;
  • April 25, 1935, Thayer estate sale, American Art Association, New York, lot 65, to his grandson, Nathaniel Thayer Winthrop (b. 1912 - d. 1980) and his wife, Eleanor B. Winthrop (b. 1919 - d. 2008), New York;
  • 2009, bequeathed by Eleanor B. Winthrop to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 17, 2009)
Credit line Bequest of Eleanor B. Winthrop in memory of Nathaniel T. Winthrop
References Museum of Fine Arts, Boston object ID: 524274 Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/portrait-of-horace-walpoles-nieces-the-honorable-laura-keppel-and-charlotte-lady-huntingtower-524274

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