Susannah Edith, Lady Rowley, ca. 1785

  • John Hoppner, English, 1758-1810

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 30 × 25 inches (76.2 × 63.5 cm)
  • 40 × 35 × 3 1/8 inches (101.6 × 88.9 × 7.9 cm)

Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband

71.171

On View

  • Fashionable Living, Level 3, South

Department

European Painting

Sir William Rowley, second Bart. [d. 1832] (Tendring Hall, Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, England)

by descent to his daughter, Lady Marianne Sarah Dashwood [d. 1877] (Kirtlington Park, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England)

by descent to her second son, Captain George Astley Charles Dashwood [d. 1863] (Wherstead Park, Ipswich, Suffolk, England)

by descent to his son, Lieutenant Charles Edmund Dashwood, J.P. [d. 1935] (Wherstead Park, Ipswich, Suffolk, England)

Baron Eugen de Rothschild (Paris, France)

(Charles Davis, London, England)

April 1926, (P. & D. Colnaghi, London, England)

1927, sold by (Knoedler, New York, New York, USA and London, England)

January 1927, purchased by Alfred W. Erickson (New York, New York, USA)

(Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA)

1935, acquired by Anna Thomson Dodge [Mrs. Horace E. Dodge] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1971-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

A Catalogue of the Works of Art of the 18th Century in the Collection of Anna Thompson Dodge. Detroit, 1939, vol. 1: 15–16 (ill.). Dell, T., et al. The Dodge Collection of 18th Century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1996, pp. 216-219, cat. 67 (ill.). Collars and Cuffs: The Politics of Fashion in European Portraiture 1630–1880. Exh. cat., Art Center, et al. Battle Creek, 2000. Secrest, Meryle. Duveen: a life in art. New York, 2004, pp. 450–451.

John Hoppner, Susannah Edith, Lady Rowley, ca. 1785, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.171.