Live Auction 11977Old Master and British Paintings
Attributed to Reverend James Wills (active 1740-1777)
Lot 24 PROPERTY OF THE LATE MRS BARBARA OVERLAND, REMOVED FROM MONTPELLIER, JERSEY (LOTS 24, 26, 114, 143 & 154)

Attributed to Reverend James Wills (active 1740-1777)

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

Closed28 April 2016

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

(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.