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Hugh Douglas Hamilton

Frederick North, Later Fifth Earl of Guilford, in Rome, 1790

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Medium

pastel and gouache(?) with touches of graphite on paper mounted to canvas (on strainer/stretcher)

Dimensions

overall: 95 x 68 cm (37 3/8 x 26 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the 50th Anniversary Gift Committee

Accession Number

1991.86.1

Artists / Makers

Hugh Douglas Hamilton (artist) Irish, c. 1739 - 1808

Image Use

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Provenance

(Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 11 December 1909); (Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd., London); purchased 1991 by NGA.

Associated Names

Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd.

Exhibition History

2000: Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000, no. 363, repro (Philadelphia only).

2019: The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1909: Christie's, London: 11 Dec. 1909, 3.

1990: Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, English Drawings, London: 10/24-11/15/90, 38 (illus. on cover).

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: supplement.

1997: Crookshank, Anne, and The Knight of Glin. “Some Italian Pastels by Hugh Douglas Hamilton,” Irish Arts Review Yearbook 13 (1997): 68 and fig. 5

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