Mrs. Ayscoghe Boucherett

ca. 1795

Thomas Lawrence English, 1769-1830

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About the Artwork

Title Mrs. Ayscoghe Boucherett

Artwork Date ca. 1795

Artist Thomas Lawrence

Life Dates 1769-1830

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 canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 30 1/8 × 25 inches (76.5 × 63.5 cm) Framed: 38 1/4 × 33 1/4 × 2 1/2 inches (97.2 × 84.5 × 6.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mrs. Tobey Hanson

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. F74.46

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Marks Marked, label on stretcher, verso: Step-daughter of John Julius Angerstein merchant and philanthropist whose collection of pictures was the nucleus of the National Gallery. She married Ayscough Boucherette, of Willingham who was killed by falling from his curricle in 1814. Marked, label on stretcher: Thos Agnew & Sons, London

Provenance

the sitter, Mrs. Ayscoghe Boucherett [1761-1837] (Asbury Hall, Warwickshite, London, England);
by descent, Maria Boucherett Newdigate;
by descent, Sir Francis Newdigate [died 1936].
(Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, England).
until at least 1954, Mrs. John S. Newberry (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);
Mrs. Toby Hanson (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA);
1974-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Ribton-Turner, C.J. Shakespeare's Land. Leamington, 1893, p. 259.

Loan Collection of Portraits. Exh. cat., Birmingham Art Gallery. Birmingham, 1900, no. 38.

Armstrong, Sir W. Lawrence. London, 1913, p. 116.

Fifth Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, October 1927, p. 36, cat. 61 [lent by Mrs. John S. Newberry-entry by W. Heil].

Exhibition of English Art of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Exh. cat., DIA [at Alger House]. Detroit, 1938 [no published catalogue--hand typed ms].

Garlick, K. Sir Thomas Lawrence. London, 1954, p. 28, no. 9 [as in the collection of John S. Newberry, Detroit].

Sir Thomas Lawrence As Painter and Collector. Exh. cat., Columbus Gallery of Fine Art. Columbus, 1955, no. 6.

Garlick, K. Sir Thomas Lawrence: A Complete Catalogue of the Oil Paintings. New York, 1989, p. 155, no. 119b, (repr.).

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