Lot 190: Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Ann Burney, half-length, in pink dress with lace bonnet and sleeves with pearl earrings and choker, in a feigned oval

Attributed to Reverend James Wills (active 1740-1777) Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Ann Burney, half-length, in pink dress with lace bonnet and sleeves with pearl earrings and choker, in a feigned oval 30 1/8 x 25 in. (76.5 x 63.5 cm.) oil on canvas

76.5 x 63.5 cm.

"Famed Collection Await Museum" in The Victoria Advocate, 20 January 1966, as 'Mrs. Ann Burney by William Hogarth'. Kimbell Art Museum: Catalogue of the Collection, Fort Worth, 1972, pp. 119-120, as 'attributed to George Beare'. Kimbell Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection, Fort Worth, 1981, p. 30, as 'attributed to George Beare'. F. Trapp, British art, Amherst, 1986, p. 17, as by George Beare.

(Probably) the Burney family, London. (Probably) the Mountbatten family, London. with Newhouse Galleries, Inc., New York, by 1948, when purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Kay Kimbell, Fort Worth, bequeathed to Kimbell Art Foundation, Fort Worth, Texas; Sotheby's, New York, 2 June 1989, lot 98, as 'George Beare, Portrait of a lady said to be Mrs Ann Burney'. with Thomas Agnew's, London, as 'Rev. James Wills', from whom purchased by the late Mrs. Barbara Overland.