John Hoppner
The Countess of Darnley and her Daughter, Lady Elizabeth Bligh

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Artist John Hoppner (English, 1758–1810)English, 1758–1810

CultureEnglish

Titles

The Countess of Darnley and her Daughter, Lady Elizabeth Bligh

Datec. 1795

PlaceEngland

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall (Sight): 50 × 40 in. (127 × 101.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of Pauline Ickelheimer

Object number54.1

Non exposé

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Department

Arts of Europe and the Mediterranean

Object Type

PAINTING

ProvenancePauline Ickelheimer, New York; donated to the museum in 1953 and 1954.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: By the Earl of Darnley, Royal Academy, London, 1877, No. 253.

Exhibited: "Tenth Annual exhibition 22 pictures of Old English Masters," Thomas Agnew & Sons., London, 1904, No. 3.

Exhibited: Loan exhibition of Old Masters, M. Knoedler & Co. New York, 1912

Exhibited: Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, October 1955.

Exhibited:

Exhibited: "British Painting," Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, 1957

Exhibited: "Portraiture: The 129th and 20th Centuries," The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, March 31, 1957,; The Baltimore Museum of Art, May 14, 1957; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, July 1, 1957; and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, September 1, 1957.

Exhibited: "A Summer of Children," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (In the Junior Gallery), June 20 - August 23, 1970.,

Loan: Exchange loan to Mr. & Mrs. James Ketelson, Houston, TX, from 11-11-94 to 3-28-95 (in exchange for loans to the MFAH exhibition "American Painters in the Age of Impressionism," 12-4-94 to 3-26-95)(LN:94.42)

Loan: Exchange loan to Mr. & Mrs. James Ketelsen, Houston, TX,, Sep. 29 to Nov. 10, 1998, in exchange for their loan of Sargent's "Countess of Essex" to "John Singer Sargent in Houston Collections," at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Oct. 11 to Nov. 8, 1998 (LN:98.38)

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