Lot 253: Attributed to George Romney (British, 1734-1802)

Attributed to George Romney (British, 1734-1802)
Portrait of Mrs. Butler (1730-c. 1800), née Miss Penelope Carwardine, half-length
oil on canvas, oval
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)

London, Grosvenor Gallery, Century of British Art, Winter Exhibition, n.d., no. 110.
Birmingham, City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Selected Works by English Portrait Painters of the XVIII and Early XIX Centuries, 1900, no. 3.
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of works by Old Masters, and by deceased masters of the British school, including a collection of watercolours and chalk drawings: winter exhibition, thirty-eighth year, 1907.

H. Ward and W. Roberts, Romney. A Biographical and Cricital Essay with a Catalogue Raisonné of his Works, London and New York, 1904, II, p. 23.

John Carwardine, Esq, Earls Colne Priory, Essex; + Christie's, 22 February 1890, lot 68 (1,750 gns. to Clayton).
Rev. H.A. Carwardine, The Vicarage, Ogbourne St. Andrew, nr. Marlborough; Christie's, 13 July 1895, lot 118 (95 gns. to Wallis).
A. Hatton Beck, Esq.
J.C. Williams, Esq.
Viscout Leverhulme, New York.
with The Anderson Galleries, The Art collections of the Late Viscount Leverhulme, 1926, no. 233.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, 1 February 1940, lot 70, with accompanying certificate from Roberts (now lost).
Lord Benno Bordiga, by whom gifted to
The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, 1974-2009; Christie's, New York, 9 February 2009, lot 51, as 'follower of Romney'.

Attributed to George Romney (British, 1734-1802)
Portrait of Mrs. Butler (1730-c. 1800), née Miss Penelope Carwardine, half-length
oil on canvas, oval
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)