Mary Wood, 1794

Not on View

Medium

pastel on paper laid down on canvas

Dimensions

overall (oval): 60.5 x 45 cm (23 13/16 x 17 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Jeffares (online edition); no. J.64.304

Accession Number

1993.63.1

Artists / Makers

John Russell (artist) British, 1745 - 1806

Image Use

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Inscription

center left in graphite: Russell RA. Pinxt / 1794

Provenance

By descent in the sitter's family to Reverend Henry Eliot Delmé-Radcliffe, Marlborough. (sale, Christie's, London, 9 November 1993, no. 5); purchased 1993 by NGA.

Associated Names

Delmé-Radcliffe, Henry Eliot Reverend
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd.

Exhibition History

2004: Pastels of the Eighteenth Century: Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 2004, no cat.

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

Bibliography

n.d.: Neil Jeffares, "John Russell." Dictionary of pastellists before 1800. London, 2006; online edition [http://www.pastellists.com/Articles/Russell4.pdf], accessed 6 July 2018: no. J.64.304.

1894: Williamson, G.C. John Russell, R.A.. London, 1894: p. 160

2006: Jeffares, Neil. Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800. London, 2006: 470