William Owen
The Grandchildren of Sir William Heathcote
1801140.3 x 171.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Heathcote Art Foundation
Literature
Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, British paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875, New York; New Haven and London, 2009, nr. 109
Provenance
Sir William Heathcote, 3rd Baronet (until d. 1819)
by descent to Lieutenant Colonel Sir Gilbert Redvers Heathcote, 8th Baronet, Bighton Wood, Alresford, Hampshire (1924—d. 1937; his estate, 1937-38)
Heathcote Heirlooms sale, Christie's, London, May 27, 1938, no. 44, to Vicars
with Vicars Brothers, London, from 1938
Josephine Mercy Heathcote Haskell, New York (until d. 1982)
Heathcote Art Foundation (1982-86)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, gift of Heathcote Art Foundation, 1986
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