Mrs. Irvine J. Boswell

ca. 1820

Henry Raeburn Scottish, 1756-1823

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Title Mrs. Irvine J. Boswell

Artwork Date ca. 1820

Artist Henry Raeburn

Life Dates 1756-1823

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. Scottish

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

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 30 3/8 × 25 1/4 inches (77.2 × 64.1 cm) Framed: 41 1/4 × 35 5/8 inches (104.8 × 90.5 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Bequest of Eleanor Clay Ford

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. 77.6

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Provenance

collection of J. Irvine Fortescue, Esquire;
collection of Col. Walter Brown (possibly Renfrew, Scotland);
(Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA);
1926, purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Edsel Ford (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA);
1977-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

British Institution, London, 1813, cat. 23.

Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1814, cat. 185.

Royal Academy, London, 1873, cat. 280.

Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1883.

Armstrong, W. Sir Henry Raeburn. London, 1901, p. 96, pl. 50.

Caw, J. L. Portraits of Sir Henry Raeburn. London, 1909, p. 13.

Greig, J. Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A. London, 1911, p. 39.

French Gallery, London, 1911, no. 11, (repr.).

Burlington House, London, 1925, cat. 39.

The Second Loan Exhibition of Old Masters British Paintings of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, January 18-31, 1926, unpaginated, cat. 28 [lent by Joseph Duveen, NYC].

The Third Loan Exhibition of Old Masters Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, French, Spanish and English Fifteenth to Nineteenth Century. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, March 22-April 4, 1926, unpaginated, cat. 57 [lent by Mr. & Mrs. Edsel Ford].

Fifth Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, October 1927, p. 36, cat. 63 [lent by Mr. & Mrs. Edsel Ford--entry by W. Heil].

Graves, Algernon. A Century of Loan Exhibitions: 1813-1912, vol. 3, "R to U." London, pp. 989-9.

Exhibition of English Art of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Exh. cat., DIA at Alger House. Detroit, November 6-18, 1938 [no published catalogue--hand typed ms.--lent by Mr. & Mrs. Edsel B. Ford].

"Annual Report 1976/1977," Bulletin of the DIA 56, no. 1 (1977): pp. 24, 27, 41, (fig. 20).

City of Detroit. “Arts Department,” Journal of the City Council (May 5, 1977): pp. 1060–1061, p. 1060.

Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1310 (March 1978): p. 95 [supplement].

Waterhouse, Ellis. "Three British Portraits," Bulletin of the DIA 57, no. 1 (1979): p. 44 (repr.).

Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art; on long term loan 1985-1986.

Collars and Cuffs: The Politics of Fashion in European Portraiture 1630-1880. Exh. cat., Michigan Statewide Touring Exhibition. 2000-2001, [with accompanying brochure, (Exhibition traveled to Rochester Hills, Battle Creek, Midland, Traverse City, Port Huron, Saint Joseph)].

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