Henry Raeburn

Literature

Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, British paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875, New York; New Haven and London, 2009, nr. 85

Provenance

the artist, until died 1823
by descent in the Raeburn family, Edinburgh, 1823-77
Raeburn sale, Christie's, London, 7 May 1877, nr. 32, to the sitter
William Scott-Elliot of Arkleton, Langholm, 1877—died 1901
Walter Travers Scott-Elliot of Arkleton, 1901-27
his sale, Sotheby's, London, 12 May 1927, nr. 87, to Gooden & Fox
with Gooden & Fox, London, 1927
with Duveen, London, 1927, sold to Bache
Jules Bache, New York, 1927—died 1944
Bache Foundation, 1944-45, sold to MMA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Fletcher Fund, 1945
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External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 45.59.2

Other works by Henry Raeburn

Andrew Duncan senior
c. 1819

Mrs Malcolm
c. 1820

Alexander, 10th Duke of Hamilton
c. 1812-23

Captain Hay of Lawfield and Spott
c. 1795-1800

Portrait of Mrs Eleanor Bethune