Live Auction 22751Old Master Paintings and Sculpture: Part II
GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS, LANCASHIRE 1734-1802 KENDAL, CUMBRIA)
Lot 188

GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS, LANCASHIRE 1734-1802 KENDAL, CUMBRIA)

Portrait of James Cross of Clifton, Bristol (?1739-1791), three-quarter-length, at a table with a landscape beyond

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GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS, LANCASHIRE 1734-1802 KENDAL, CUMBRIA)
Portrait of James Cross of Clifton, Bristol (?1739-1791), three-quarter-length, at a table with a landscape beyond
oil on canvas
50 ¼ x 40 ¼ in. (127.5 x 102.2 cm.)

By descent in the sitter’s family.
Professor Joyce, from whom acquired in 1913 by,
with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London.
with Arthur Joseph Sulley, London.
with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London.
with Arthur Joseph Sulley, London.
with Knoedler & Co., New York, by 1927.
Private collection, New York.
Anonymous sale; Parke-Bernet, New York, 17 February 1944, lot 82.
with Knoedler & Co., New York, where acquired in 1946 by the following,
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, deaccessioned in November 1956, through the following,
with Knoedler & Co., New York.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 17 March 1978, lot 86.
with Elwes & Hanham, London, by 1999.
Private collection, England.