Live Auction 11974Old Master and British Paintings Day Sale
Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A. (Stockbridge 1756-1823 Edinburgh)
Lot 188 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION

Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A. (Stockbridge 1756-1823 Edinburgh)

Portrait of Henrietta, Mrs. John Parish (1745-1810), three-quarter-length, seated in a landscape, wearing a white dress with a green shawl and gloves

Closed8 July 2016

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Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A. (Stockbridge 1756-1823 Edinburgh)
Portrait of Henrietta, Mrs. John Parish (1745-1810), three-quarter-length, seated in a landscape, wearing a white dress with a green shawl and gloves
oil on canvas
50 ¼ x 40 ¼ in. (127.5 x 102.2 cm.)

By descent through the sitter's family to John Parish, Freiherr von Senftenberg, Senftenberg Castle, Austria, and by descent to,
Baron Charles Parish, 1948.
with Newhouse Galleries, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Kay Kimbell, Fort Worth, Texas.
The Kimbell Art Foundation, Fort Worth, Texas; their sale, Sotheby's, London, 12 July 1989, lot 39 (£44,000), when acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

The sitter was born Henrietta Tod. In 1768 she married John Parish (1742-1829), a Scottish born merchant, with whom she had eight children. Parish and his family later moved to Germany where he made a considerable fortune before being appointed first consul general of the United States to Hamburg, in 1793. The painting remained in the family seat, Senftenberg Castle, Austria.