About the Artwork
Colonel Clitherow
1784
George Romney
1734-1802
English
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 30 3/8 × 25 1/8 inches (77.2 × 63.8 cm) Framed: 38 3/8 × 33 3/8 × 2 3/4 inches (97.5 × 84.8 × 7 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Bequest of Mrs. James S. Holden
F67.6
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
Clitherow family (Boston House, Brentford, Middlesex, England)
Dr. Clarence Cooper (Egglesfield House, Middlesex, Brentford Butts, England)
(M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York, USA and London, England)
Mrs. James S. Holden (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1967-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Ward, T. and Roberts. Romney: A Biography and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonné of His Works. 1904, p. 30.
The Second Loan Exhibition of Old Masters British Paintings of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1926, cat. 46.
The Third Loan Exhibition of Old Masters Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, French, Spanish and English Fifteenth to Nineteenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1926, cat. 60.
Maclean-Eltham, Barry. Romney Paintings in Public Collections. Kendal, Cumbria, 1996, p. 21. [dated 1784]
Kidson, Alex. George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, vol. 1. New Haven, 2015, pp. 134–135, no. 256 (ill.).
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George Romney, Colonel Clitherow, 1784, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. James S. Holden, F67.6.
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