Henry Raeburn
William Fraser of Reelig
180174.9 x 62.2 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Literature
Charles Sterling, Maryan W. Ainsworth, Charles Talbot, Martha Wolff, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Jonathan Brown, John Hayes, The Robert Lehman Collection, New York, Princeton, 1998, nr. 42
Provenance
commissioned in 1801 by the sitter's father, Edward Satchwell Fraser (1751-1835), Reelig, Scotland
his son James Baillie Fraser (1783-1856)
his widow, Jane Fraser Tytler (died 1861)
his sister, Jane Anne Catherine Fraser (1797-1881)
her grandson, Philip Affleck Fraser, 1879
Fraser sale, Christie's, London, 10 July 1897 (Lugt 55566), nr. 26, sold to Agnew
with Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1908
M. Veil-Picard, Paris
Maurice Kann, Paris
his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 9 June 1911 (Lugt 70050), nr. 47
with Scott and Fowles, New York
acquired by Philip Lehman from Scott and Fowles in February 1912
Other works by Henry Raeburn
Margaret Maclean Clephane, Marchioness of Northampton
Francis MacNab
1819
1819
Captain David Birrell
Charles Hay, Lord Newton
Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster