Macready [?] in the character of a king [graphic] / manner of Sir Thomas Lawrence.
1820
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Details
Title
Macready [?] in the character of a king [graphic] / manner of Sir Thomas Lawrence.
Created/published
ca. 1820s.
Description
1 painting : oil on canvas ; 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 64 cm)
Associated name
Wendell, Evert Jansen, 1860-1917, former owner.
Material base
canvas
Note
Removed from 1st floor - Development Office (outer)
Annotated at lower left in gold paint: "J. Opie" (the varnish layer has not been removed in the area of the "signature")
Title from Pressly.
Annotated at lower left in gold paint: "J. Opie" (the varnish layer has not been removed in the area of the "signature")
Title from Pressly.
Provenance
Provenance: Collection of Evert Jansen Wendell.
Source of acquisition
American Art Galleries, affiliated with American Art Association, Madison Square South, New York, and Madison Ave., 56th to 57th streets, Evert Jansen Wendell sale, 21 October 1919, lot 4853, $148, as a painting of Edmund Kean in the character of Richard III by J. Opie.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 116
Genre/form
Portrait paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPb34 (aisle 265/266 flat)
Folger-specific note
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Folger accession
no case or accession number present