Enoch Seeman the Younger
Sir James Dashwood
1737243.8 x 153 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed, dated, and inscribed: (lower right) Enoch Seeman / pinx.1737; (lower left) Sir James Dashwood Bart. / (Painted in the 23rd Year of his age) / Died 1779 Aged 64
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Victor Wilbour Memorial Fund, 1956
Literature
Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, British paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875, New York; New Haven and London, 2009, nr. 17
Provenance
Sir James Dashwood, 2nd Baronet, Northbrooke House and later Kirtlington Park, near Oxford, 1737–died 1779
Dashwood family, Kirtlington Park, 1779–1947
on loan to Oxford City Buildings by 1922
Sir Henry George Massy Dashwood, 8th Baronet, Ledwell House, Ledwell, Oxfordshire, 1947–56
on loan to Oxford Town Hall until 1956, sold to Agnew
with Agnew, London, 1956, sold to MMA