Miss Clavering

between 1780 and 1782

George Romney English, 1734-1802

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Title Miss Clavering

Artwork Date between 1780 and 1782

Artist George Romney

Life Dates 1734-1802

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. English

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 49 3/4 × 40 inches (126.4 × 101.6 cm) Framed: 57 1/4 × 47 3/8 × 2 1/2 inches (145.4 × 120.3 × 6.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mrs. Charles T. Fisher, Jr.

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F81.414

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Inscriptions Inscribed, back of frame, bottom, in white paint: F1022/50 x 10 Inscribed, back of frame, top right, in pencil: 5452 Inscribed, stretcher bar, top left, blue pencil: #1805v Inscribed, inside edge of lower bar: 907 [or 902]

Marks Marked, back of frame, top left, on paper: 1350 Marked, back of frame, top left, on wide paper tape: 4/15/49/B X 2-1-P | for Sunder E... Marked, vertical bar, on ripped paper label: Maria M!argaret Claverin\g! \afterwar!ds Lady Napier The eldest daught\er of! \Lieutenant-Gen!eral Sir James Joh\n! \Claver!ing, KB. 2nd in \Coun!cil and Command\er! \in Chi!ef in Bengal..\first! \married!...Lady Diana West \daughter of! John 1st Earl Dela \Warr! She married Apri\l 13, 1784! \Fr!ancis 7th Baron \of Napier! \a!nd died Decemb\er 29, 1821! Marked, vertical bar, on ripped paper label: 10 Marked, streatcher bars, top left, paper label: 1163 Marked, stretcher bar, top right, paper label: No. 29587 | PICTURE Marked, circular stamp, glued onto verso of canvas, lower left: DOUANE DE PARIS in circle around] Batignolles

Provenance

1780, commissioned for Sir Thomas Clavering

1782, completed and delivered to (Axwell Park, Blayton-on-Tyne, England)

by 1900, by descent, Rev. John Warren Napier-Clavering (Axwell Park, Blayton-on-Tyne, England)

by descent, Sir William A. Clavering (Axwell Park, Blayton-on-Tyne, England)

March 18, 1921, auction of the late Sir William A. Clavering at (Christie's, London, England), lot 107

March 18, 1921, purchased by Arthur J. Sulley (London, England)

1921, Edward T. Stotesbury (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA). at least by 1949, Mr. and Mrs. Walter O. Briggs (Detroit, Michigan, USA). Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Fisher, Jr. (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1981-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Exh. cat., Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Birmingham, 1900, p. 15, no. 7, pl. 2 [lent by the Rev. J. W. Napier-Clavering].

Roberts, W. and H. Ward. Romney. London and New York, 1904, vol. 1, p. 91, vol. 2, p. 30.

Thomas Agnew and Sons. London, 1910, no. 15.

"The Art of Romney," The Lotus Magazine (March 1915): p. 306, (repr.).

Catalogue of Important Italian Pictures. Sales cat., Christie, Manson and Woods. London, March 18, 1921, no. 107 [as portrait of Lady Napier].

Pennsylvania Musum of Art. Philadelphia, 1932.

California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Francisco, 1941.

Masterpieces of Painting from Detroit Private Collections. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1949, no. 26 [as Mrs. Clavering, later Lady Nadier [sic]- lent by Mr. and Mrs. Walter O. Briggs.]

Maclean-Eltham, Barry. George Romney Paintings in Public Collections. The Romney Society, Kendal, Cumbria, 1996, p. 21 [as ca. 1780-1782].

Collars and Cuffs: The Politics of Fashion in European Portraiture 1630-1880. Exh. cat., Michigan Statewide Touring Exhibition. 2000-2001, with accompanying brochure, [exhibition traveled to Rochester Hills, Battle Creek, Midland, Traverse City, Port Huron, Saint Joseph].

Kidson, Alex. George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, vol. 1. New Haven, 2015, p. 133, no. 252 (ill.).

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