Lot 127: Sir Martin Archer Shee, P.R.A. (Dublin 1769-1850 Brighton)

Sir Martin Archer Shee, P.R.A. (Dublin 1769-1850 Brighton)
Portrait of a lady, full-length, in a white dress with a yellow silk sash, an artist's palette and neo-classical bust on a table to her left, an Erard harp on her right, and a classical Greek urn to her left and an engraving in her left hand
oil on canvas
93¾ x 57½ in. (238.2 x 146 cm.)
in a contemporary carved and gilded frame

Kimbell Art Museum, Handbook of the Collection, 1981, p. 51, illustrated

Blakeslee Galleries, New York.
Edward R. Bacon, New York, circa 1895.
Mrs Henry Batton Jacobs, Baltimore.
Newhouse Galleries, New York.
The Estate of Mr and Mrs Kay Kimbell, Fort Worth, Texas; Sotheby's, New York, 20 April 1983, lot 19 ($6,500).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1990, lot 63 (£23,650).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 15 June 2001, lot 41 (£35,250).

Sir Martin Archer Shee, P.R.A. (Dublin 1769-1850 Brighton)
Portrait of a lady, full-length, in a white dress with a yellow silk sash, an artist's palette and neo-classical bust on a table to her left, an Erard harp on her right, and a classical Greek urn to her left and an engraving in her left hand
oil on canvas
93¾ x 57½ in. (238.2 x 146 cm.)
in a contemporary carved and gilded frame