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
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