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Edward Swinburne

Date: 1785
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 27 1/8 x 23 1/2 (68.9 x 59.7) 35 3/4 x 32 x 3 1/4 in. (90.8 x 81.3 x 8.3 cm)
Department: European Painting
Classification: Paintings
Credit: Gift of Mrs. Byron C. Foy in memory of her mother, Mrs. Walter P. Chrysler
Accession No.: 49.508
Provenance: Great Britain, Capheaton, Collection Swinburne family, until about 1928; New York, Howard Young Gallery (dealer-1928); New York, Collection Mrs. Byron C. Foy (daughter of Mrs. Walter P. Chrysler) by whom given to the DIA in 1949.
Keywords: canvas, oil, paint, portrait, half length

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