About the Artwork
The Wilkinson Family
between 1776 and 1778
Francis Wheatley
1747-1801
English
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 40 1/2 × 50 1/2 inches (102.9 × 128.3 cm) Framed: 45 3/4 × 55 7/8 × 2 3/8 inches (116.2 × 141.9 × 6 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund
46.133
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
John and Sibella Wilkinson (Roehampton, England)
by descent to their daughter, Sibella Wilkinson (Clapham, Yorkshire)
by descent to her daughter, Sibella Wilkinson de la Chaumette
by descent to her daughter, Sibella de la Chaumette Crowdy [later Mrs. James Crowdy]
by descent to James and Mabel Crowdy (London, England)
by descent to Dame Rachel Crowdy
until 1924, by descent to James Fuidge Crowdy
(Legatt Brothers, London, England)
purchased by (Tooth & Co., London, England) perhaps acting as agent for (Scott & Fowles, New York, New York, USA)
by 1924, (Scott & Fowles, New York, New York, USA)
December 22, 1924-1946, purchased by J.R. Aldred (Long Island, New York, USA)
May 15, 1946, sold by (Parke-Bernet, New York, New York, USA) lot 45
1946, purchased by (Scott & Fowles, New York, New York, USA)
1946-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Hulton, J. The Leeds Art Calendar, Autumn, 1947.
English Conversation Pieces of the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1948, no. 26, frontispiece.
Richardson, Edgar Preston. "Conversation for the Eye." Art News 47 (March 1948): pp. 34, 57 (ill.).
Condition: Excellent, Special Exhibition of Paintings for the State of Preservation. Exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum. Worcester, 1951, no. 30.
The Century of Mozart. Exh. cat, The Nelson Gallery. Kansas City, 1956, pp. 11, 32, 57, no. 108 (ill.).
Francis Wheatly RA 1747-1801. Exh. cat., Festival of Music and the Arts and City Art Gallery. Aldeburgh and Leeds, 1965, no. 96.
Romantic Art in Britain: Paintings and Drawings 1760-1860. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts and Philadelphia Museum of Art. Detroit and Philadelphia, 1968, pp. 133-134, cat. 75 (ill.).
Praz, M. Conversation Pieces. 1971, pp. 127, 134.
Cummings, Frederick J., ed. Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1979, p. 82, no. 52 (ill.).
Masterpieces from The Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art, et al. Tokyo, 1989, pp. 80, 216, cat. 48 (ill.).
Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to Hockney. Exh. cat., Yale Center for British Ar and Huntington Art Gallery. New Haven and San Marino, 2001, pp. 128-130, cat. 33 (ill.).
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Francis Wheatley, The Wilkinson Family, between 1776 and 1778, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 46.133.
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