Mrs. Alexander Campbell of Possil

Henry Raeburn Scottish, 1756-1823
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British, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Mrs. Alexander Campbell of Possil

between 1756 and 1823

Henry Raeburn

1756-1823

Scottish

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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)

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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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Published References

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.

Mrs. Alexander Campbell of Possil
Mrs. Alexander Campbell of Possil