Charles Philips
The Strong Family
173275.2 x 94 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated, lower right: CPhilips (initials in ligature) pinxit 1732
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Robert Lehman, 1944
Family portrait
Literature
Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, British paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875, New York; New Haven and London, 2009, nr. 23
Provenance
by descent to Vice Admiral John Dodd Nares, R.N., until 1930
sale, Christie's, London, 30 June 1930, nr. 38, to Ehrich
with Ehrich Galleries, New York, 1930–31
their sale, American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, New York, 20 November 1931, nr. 66, to Weil
M.S. Weil, from 1931
sale, American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, New York, 14 December 1933, nr. 56, to Ehrich
with Ehrich Galleries, New York, from 1933
with Averell House, New York, until 1934
sale, American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, New York, 17 May 1934, nr. 71, to Ehrich-Newhouse for Lehman
Robert Lehman, New York, 1934–44