Bandit Taking up His Post

between 1773 and 1779

John Hamilton Mortimer English, 1741-1779

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British, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Bandit Taking up His Post

Artwork Date between 1773 and 1779

Artist John Hamilton Mortimer

Life Dates 1741-1779

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. English

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 13 1/4 × 9 1/2 inches (33.7 × 24.1 cm) Framed: 15 7/8 × 11 1/2 × 1 1/2 inches (40.3 × 29.2 × 3.8 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 66.80

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Signed Signed, lower right: [monogram]

Provenance

by 1798, Daniel Daulby;
August 27, 1798, sold by (T. Vernon, Liverpool, England) auction of the Late Daniel Daulby, lot 35;
March 16, 1804, Thomas Norris sale (possibly London, England) no. 19 [for 10 1/12 guineas];
Pulteney Hotel (Bath, England);
(Nathan Chaikin, Paris, France);
1966, sold by (Sotheby's, New York, New York, USA);
1966-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Gaunt, W. The Great Century of British Painting. London, 1917, pl. 89.

Romantic Art in Britain: Painting and Drawings, 1760-1860. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts and Philadelphia Museum of Art. Detroit and Philadelphia, 1968, no. 57, p.109 (ill.).

Rosenblum, Robert. "A Century of British Painting." Art in America 56, no. 1 (1968): p. 89 (ill.).

John Hamilton Mortimer, A.R.A.: 1740-1779. Exh. cat., Towner Art Gallery and Iveagh Bequest. Eastbourne and Kenwood, 1968, p. 36, cat. 59 (ill.).

Arts Council Exhibition. Exh. cat., Hayward Gallery. London, 1973, no. 134, p. 79.

Cinco Siglos de Obras Maestras. Exh. cat., Museo fe Jade. San Jose, 1978, no. 26, p. 77 (ill.).

Johns, C.M.S. "Theater and Theory, Thomas Sully's George Frederick Cooke as Richard III." Winterthur Portfolio, a Journal of American Culture 18, no. 1 (Spring).

Sunderland, J. "John Hamilton Mortimer, His Life and Works." The Fifty-Second Volume of the Walpole Society (1986): p. 189, cat. no. 140.9b (fig. 256).

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John Hamilton Mortimer, Bandit Taking up His Post, between 1773 and 1779, oil on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund, 66.80.