Mather Brown American, 1761-1831
16 7/8 x 13 1/2 in
Provenance
The Reverend William Dacy, by whom given to the Reverend T.J. Judkin, 1890;
John Lane, New York
[Possibly B.W.F. van Riemsdijk, Director of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, from 1897 to 1920, as attributed to Gilbert Stuart]
Sale: Christie's, South Kensington, April 29, 1985, lot 59
Thomas Agnews & Sons Ltd., London
Acquired from the above by a private collector, USA, from whose agent acquired by us
Literature
Dorinda Evans, Mather Brown, 1982, p. 221, Catalogue raisonné no. 140 (as whereabouts unknown). The author dates the painting circa 1790 and notes the sitter's name as a pseudonym for John Williams.
Charles R. Hart “Thomas Dawson, Viscount Cremorne, painted by Mather Brown” (Art in America, no. 5 (October 1917) p.310), where stated to be in the collection of B.W.F.Riemsdijk
Publications
Engraved:(i) in stipple by E.Scott, published by Collings and Clearson; (1790)
- copy of the above with painter not credited, by Francis Bartolozzi (Undated)