About the Artwork
Mrs. Alexander Campbell of Possil
between 1756 and 1823
Henry Raeburn
1756-1823
Scottish
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 30 1/8 × 25 1/8 inches (76.5 × 63.8 cm) Framed: 39 7/8 × 34 7/8 × 3 1/2 inches (101.3 × 88.6 × 8.9 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ford Ballantyne
70.786
Public Domain
Markings
Label, on verso: G. Maclachlan
Provenance
until at least 1876, G. Maclachlan (Castle-Lachlan, Scotland);ca. 1901, Mrs. Atherton;
ca. 1912, Hettie Ford Speck (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);
1952, by descent to her son, Ford Ballantyne Sr. (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);
1962, Mrs. Ford Ballantyne Sr. [Margaret W.] (Gross Pointe, Michigan, USA);
1970-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Sir Henry Raeburn. Exh. cat., Royal Academy National Galleries. Edinburgh, 1876, no. 206 [as Mrs. Campbell of Possil; lent by G. Maclachlan, Esq., of Castle-Lachlan]
Armstrong, W. Sir Henry Raeburn, 1901, p. 97.
Grieg, J. Sir Henry Raeburn, RA. London, 1911, p. 41 (fig. 1).
Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 50, no. 1 (1971): p. 12 (ill.).
Masterpieces from The Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art, et al. Tokyo, 1989, pp. 81, 216, cat. 49 (ill.).
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Henry Raeburn, Mrs. Alexander Campbell of Possil, between 1756 and 1823, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ford Ballantyne, 70.786.
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