Thomas Lawrence: Portrait of Rebecca Cornwall, Lady Simeon (d. 1830)
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| Title |
Portrait of Rebecca Cornwall, Lady Simeon (d. 1830) label QS:Len,"Portrait of Rebecca Cornwall, Lady Simeon (d. 1830)" |
| Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
| Genre |
portrait  |
| Description |
Rebecca Cornwall was the daughter of John Cornwall of Hendon House. In 1783 she married Sir John Simeon, Bart. (1756-1824) of Walliscot, Oxfordshire. The M.P. for Reading 1797-1802 and 1806-1818, he was also a practicing barrister and a member of Lincoln's Inn as well as Recorder of Reading 1779-1807 and Master in Chancery from 1795 until 1808 when he became Senior Master. Lady Simeon died in 1830. |
| Date |
early 1790s date QS:P571,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/8 |
| Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
| Dimensions |
height: 30.2 in (76.8 cm); width: 25.1 in (63.9 cm) dimensions QS:P2048,30.25U218593 dimensions QS:P2049,25.175U218593 |
| Collection |
| Unidentified location
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| Location |
18th-century portrait paintings of women, with Not identified, Not provided, Unspecified, Unmentioned or Unknown Unknown location
label QS:Len,"Not identified, Not provided, Unspecified, Unmentioned or UnknownUnknown location" . |
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| Object history |
| Provenance
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- before 1919
date QS:P,+1919-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1919-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : inherited by Laura, Lady Simeon from familial descent
- 4 July 1919: purchased by Thomas Agnew and Sons, London at the sale of the collection of Laura, Lady Simeon at Christie's, London, lot no. 35, for 2,400 guineas
- 1921: purchased by Horace Trumbauer, New York from Thomas Agnew and Sons, London
- by 1954
date QS:P,+1954-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1954-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : French & Co., New York
- 24 November 1999: anonymous sale at Sotheby's, London (auction house), lot no. 67, for £32,000
- 29 January 2009: anonymous sale at Sotheby's, New York (auction house), lot no. 199, unsold, for a pre-sale estimate of $60,000 - $80,000 (as Portrait of Rebecca, Lady Simeon (d. 1830))
- 5 December 2012: anonymous sale at Christie's, London (auction house), result unknown, for a pre-sale estimate of £20,000 - £30,000 (as Portrait of Rebecca, Lady Simeon (d. 1830), half-length, in a white dress and fur wrap, a wooded landscape beyond)
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| Exhibition history |
Sir Thomas Lawrence as Painter and Collector, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, 7 October 1955 – 13 November 1955, cat. no. 26. |
| References |
- Garlick, Kenneth (1954) Sir Thomas Lawrence, English master painters, London: Routledge & Paul, p. 58 OCLC: 1209569.
- Garlick, Kenneth (1964). "A catalogue of the paintings, drawings and pastels of Sir Thomas Lawrence". The Walpole Society 39: 177.
- Garlick, Kenneth (1989) Sir Thomas Lawrence: A Complete Catalogue of the Oil Paintings, Washington Square, N.Y.: New York University Press, no. 718 , pp. 265−266 ISBN: 9780814730225. "whereabouts unknown"
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| Source/Photographer |
Christie's (no longer in online catalogue) |