Live Auction 17655Old Master Paintings and Sculpture
Circle of George Romney, R.A. (Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire 1734-1802 Kendal, Cumbria)
Lot 766 Sold by Order of the Board of Trustees of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund

Circle of George Romney, R.A. (Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire 1734-1802 Kendal, Cumbria)

Portrait of an officer, traditionally identified as Colonel Colin MacKenzie (1754–1821), half-length, in a scarlet military coat

Closed29 October 2019

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Circle of George Romney, R.A. (Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire 1734-1802 Kendal, Cumbria)
Portrait of an officer, traditionally identified as Colonel Colin MacKenzie (1754–1821), half-length, in a scarlet military coat
oil on canvas
28 x 22 1/8 in. (71.1 x 56.3 cm.)

with Percy Moore Turner, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire; Christie’s, London, 23 May 1924, lot 106, as 'G. Romney', where acquired for 160 gns. by the following
with Agnew’s, London.
with John Levy, New York.
Harold O. Hunt, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and by descent to his widow,
Margaret Washburn Hunt, Wayzata, Minnesota, by whom bequeathed in 1961 to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Specialist note

This dashing portrait of an officer was incorrectly identified in 1904 by Ward and Roberts (loc. cit.) as the three-quarter-length portrait of Colin MacKenzie (1754–1821) recorded in Romney's records as having been painted in 1777, now untraced.