Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Raikes (?)
John Russell
(English, 1745–1806)
Medium/TechniquePastel on paper
Dimensions29.8 x 24.8 cm (11 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession number65.2666
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPastels
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1908, Charles Wertheimer (b. 1842 - d. 1911), London [note 1]. August 7, 1916, sold by Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, to M. Knoedler and Co., New York (stock no. WC 1057) [note 2]; December 31, 1928, sold by Knoedler to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 - d. 1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 8, 1969)
NOTES:
[1] He lent this to the exhibition "Cent Pastels du XVIIIe siècle" (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 18 - June 10, 1908), cat. no. 111. It was also published in The Connoisseur, vol. 22 (September - December, 1908), pp. 230, 278. A note in the curatorial file indicates that the pastel came from the V. Velheim collection; whether this was a mis-transcription of the name Wertheimer is unknown, but it remains unsubstantiated.
[2] Getty Provenance Index, M. Knoedler and Co. records, Watercolor stock book 4, p. 13, no. 1057, as "Miss Raikes."
NOTES:
[1] He lent this to the exhibition "Cent Pastels du XVIIIe siècle" (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 18 - June 10, 1908), cat. no. 111. It was also published in The Connoisseur, vol. 22 (September - December, 1908), pp. 230, 278. A note in the curatorial file indicates that the pastel came from the V. Velheim collection; whether this was a mis-transcription of the name Wertheimer is unknown, but it remains unsubstantiated.
[2] Getty Provenance Index, M. Knoedler and Co. records, Watercolor stock book 4, p. 13, no. 1057, as "Miss Raikes."
Henry Tonks
Unidentified artist, British, mid 18th century
Unidentified artist, British, 19th century