English artist
Sir John Shurley of Isfield
English artist
Sir John Shurley of Isfield
158890.8 x 74.6 cm
Oil on wood
Dated and inscribed: (upper right) ÆTATIS SVÆ 23 / ANo 1588; (lower right) H
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Kate T. Davison, in memory of her husband, Henry Pomeroy Davison, 1951
Literature
Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, British paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875, New York; New Haven and London, 2009, nr. 2
Provenance
by descent to Charles Callis Western, Lord Western, Felix Hall, Kelvedon, Essex, by 1841–died 1844
Sir Thomas Burch Western, 1st Baronet, Felix Hall, 1844–died 1873
Sir Thomas Sutton Western, 2nd Baronet, Felix Hall, 1873–died 1877
Sir Thomas Charles Callis Western, 3rd Baronet, Felix Hall, 1877–1913
his sale, Christie's, London, 13 June 1913, nr. 100, as by F. Zucchero, to Knoedler
with Knoedler, New York, and Colnaghi, London, 1913–24, half-share traded back in 1916 to Colnaghi
with Colnaghi, London, from 1924
Mrs. Henry Pomeroy (Kate T.) Davison, New York, by 1936–51