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Mrs. Francis Russell
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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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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