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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Mrs. Francis Russell
    George Romney. Mrs. Francis Russell, 1785–87. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00000571

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    Mrs. Francis Russell

    by George Romney

    Provenance

    Francis Russell, from 1787 [according to Ward and Roberts 1904]. Francis C. Simpson; sold Christie’s, London, May 8, 1897, lot 45, ill., to Charles Wertheimer for 2,000 gns [annotated sale catalogue, Christie’s, London]. Mrs. W. W. Kimball, Chicago (died 1921); on loan to the Art Institute from 1920; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1922.

    Exhibition history

    Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 204. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 152, pl. 27.

    Publications

    W. Roberts, “The Art Sales of 1897,” Magazine of Art 21 (1898), pp. 139, 140, ill. Humphrey Ward and W. Roberts, Romney, a Biographical and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonné of his Work (London, 1904), vol. 1, p. 106, vol.2, pp. 137-38. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings (Chicago, 1920), p. 60, no. 766. “The Kimball Collection,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 14, 5 (1920), p. 72, ill., 77. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings (Chicago, 1923), p. 65, 766. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1925), pp. 32, ill., 151. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), pp. 84, ill., 169. C. Collins Baker, British Painting (London, 1933), p. 285. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 402-3. Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo 84 (September, 1966), p. 195. Malcolm Warner in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1996), pp. 288-91, ill.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    George Romney (English, 1734–1802)
    Date
    1785–87
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    127.6 × 101.9 cm (50 1/4 × 40 1/4 in.); Framed: 153.3 × 128.3 × 10.2 cm (60 3/8 × 50 1/2 × 4 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    18th Century
    Place
    England
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball Collection
    Accession no.
    1922.4469

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