About the Artwork
Thomas Grove of Ferne, Wiltshire
1788
George Romney
1734-1802
English
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 49 × 39 inches (124.5 × 99.1 cm) Framed: 62 1/2 × 54 1/4 × 4 inches (158.8 × 137.8 × 10.2 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Ford, Sr.
78.81
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Thomas Grove (Ferne, near Shaftesbury, Wiltshire, England)
by descent to Sir Thomas Grove
until 1910, by descent to Sir Walter Grove
by 1926, John B. Ford (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
by descent to Frederick Ford (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)
1978-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Ward, H. and W. Roberts. Romney. New York, 1904, vol. 2, p. 67.
Graves, A. Century of Loan Exhibitions. London, 1881, p. 117.
Chamberlalin, A. George Romney. New York, 1910, pp. 334-335, and pl. LX;
English Paintings. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1926, no. 44.
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. 44.
Fifth Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1927, p. 37, cat. 64.
Masterpieces of Painting from Detroit Private Collections. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1949, no. 28. [as "Man in a Red Coat"]
Hawkins, D. "Sparing the Rod." Country Life, April 2, 1981 pp. 891-892 (ill.).
Maclean-Eltham, B. George Romney Paintings in Public Collections. Kendal, Cumbria, 1996, p. 31. [dated 1788]
Kidson, Alex. George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, vol. 1. New Haven, 2015, pp. 263–264, no. 371 (ill.).
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George Romney, Thomas Grove of Ferne, Wiltshire, 1788, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Ford, Sr., 78.81.
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