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Portrait of a Woman, possibly Miss Hill

18th century or first quarter 19th century
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions76.52 x 63.5 cm (30 1/8 x 25 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Harriet J. Bradbury
Accession number30.489
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsInscribed: N; rear: N; signed: N
ProvenanceViscount Hill, probably Rowland Clegg-Hill, 3rd Viscount Hill (b. 1833 - d. 1895), London and Hawkstone Hall, Shropshire [see note 1]. 1896, David H. King, Jr. (b. 1849 - d. 1916), New York; Feburary 17-19, 1896, King sale, American Art Association, New York, lot 121, sold for $3200 to George Robert White (b. 1847 - d. 1922), Boston; by inheritance from White to his sister, Harriet J. White (Mrs. Frederick T.) Bradbury (b. 1851 - d. 1930), Boston; 1930, bequest of Harriet J. Bradbury to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 3, 1930)

NOTES:
[1] Identified in the 1896 King auction catalogue as "Portrait of Miss Hill" by Copley, from the Viscount Hill collection, London. Rowland Clegg-Hill sold other works of art in the 1880s and 1890s.

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