About the Artwork
Sir George Augustus Elliott, Baron Heathfield
between 1788 and 1791
Mather Brown
1761-1831
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Overall: 30 × 25 inches (76.2 × 63.5 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
City of Detroit Purchase, Insurance Recovery Funds
70.953
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
by 1846, descendant of sitter, Augustus Eliott Fuller (Rose Hill Park, Sussex, England). ca. 1876, descended indirectly in the sitter's family to Sir George Eliott Meyrick Tapps-Gervis, Bt. (Hinton Admiral, Hampshire, England). 1970, his great-grandson, Sir George D. Eliott Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick, Bt. May 13, 1970, sale, no. 99, Christies (London, England)
1970, Leger Galleries (London, England)
1970-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The Royal Academy. London, 1971, no. 241 [exhibition title unknown; as Portrait Of A Nobleman]
Hood, Graham, Kathleen Pyne, and Nancy Rivard. “American Paintings Acquired During the Last Decade.” Bulletin of the DIA 55, 2 (1977): pp. 80-82 (ill.).
Evans, Dorinda. Mather Brown, Early American Artist in England. Middletown, CT, 1982, pp. 82, 92, no. 84 (ill.).
Shaw, Nancy Rivard et al. American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume 1. New York, 1991, pp. 44, 46-47 (ill.).
Ingamells, John. The National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits: 1760-1790. London, 2004, p. 251.
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Mather Brown, Sir George Augustus Elliott, Baron Heathfield, between 1788 and 1791, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, Insurance Recovery Funds, 70.953.
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