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Details
- Date
- 1792
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 127.4 x 101.8 cm canvas; 144.0 x 118.8 x 10.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., "W Hamilton R.A.". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1970
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 28.1971
- Copyright
- Artist information
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William Hamilton
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Fifth exhibition of pictures painted for T Macklin by the artists of Britain illustrative of British poets and the Bible, Poets' Gallery, London, 10 Mar 1792–28 Jul 1792
Oil paintings by British artists born before 1801, Liverpool Art Club, Oct 1881–Oct 1881
European painting 16th to 19th centuries and Australian paintings of the 19th century, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 10 Sep 1979 -
European painting 16th to 19th centuries and Australian paintings of the 19th century, State Hermitage Museum, Russia, 04 Dec 1979–18 Feb 1980
European Old Masters 16th-19th Century from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, , 28 Sep 2017–03 Dec 2017
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Bibliography
Referenced in 19 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Sydney, 1972, p 17, col illus p 17.
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Thomas Sjerrer Ross Boase, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol 26, 'Macklin and Bowyer', London, 1963, pp 148–77: p 167.
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Patricia Crawford, History and legend in some selected paintings at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1980, p 8, illus p 8.
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Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, p 82, illus p 82.
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Renée Free, Art and Australia, vol 10, no 1, Art Gallery of New South Wales special number, 'European collection', Sydney, Jul 1972, pp 63–74: p 64.
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Algernon Graves, A century of loan exhibitions, 1813-1912, 5 vols, London, 1913-1915, vol 4, 1914, p 1951.
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Peter Tomory and Robert Gaston, European Paintings before 1800 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1989, p 40, no 46, illus p 40.
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Catalogue of the fifth exhibition of pictures, painted for T Macklin, by the artists of Britain, illustrative of the British poets, and the Bible, London, 1792, pp 46–47, no 57.
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Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 1971, Sydney, 1971, p 5.
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European painting 16th to 19th centuries and Australian painting of the 19th century [in Russian], Moscow, 1979-1980, np, no 6.
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Art Gallery of New South Wales trustees' minutes 1979, Sydney, 1979, p 9129 (22 June).
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Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 1979, Sydney, 1979, p 22.
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Art Gallery of New South Wales trustees' minutes 1971, Sydney, 1971, p 7404 (26 Mar).
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Catalogue of a most valuable and truly capital collection of modern paintings, prints, plates and drawings, the property of Mr Macklin, London, 05 May 1800, p 6, no 59.
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Catalogue of modern paintings, drawings... which will be sold by auction... by order of the executors of Mr Thomas Macklin deceased, London, 27 May 1801-30 May 1801, p 24, no 17.
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Catalogue of a loan collection of oil paintings by British artists born before 1801, Liverpool, 1881, p 28, no 284.
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Catalogue of old pictures..., London, 02 Mar 1934, p 17, no 115.
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Important English pictures, London, 18 Nov 1966, p 8, no 28.
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Art Gallery of New South Wales trustees' minutes 1970, Sydney, 1970, p 7315 (26 June), p 7323 (24 July), p 7324 (24 July), p 7329 (28 Sep).
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Provenance
Thomas Macklin, circa 1791-29 May 1801, London/England, Commissioned by Macklin. His sale, Coxe, Burrell & Foster, London, 5–10 May 1800, no 59 ('Samaritan woman at the well'), bought in; Macklin's estate sale, Peter Coxe, Burrell & Foster, 27–30 May 1801, 3rd day, 29 May 1801, no 17.
Peter Stuart, pre 1881, Liverpool/England, Elm House, Seaforth, Liverpool, by 1881 (see exhibitions); presumably by descent.
James Nicoll, post 02 Mar 1934, Purchased at Christie's, London, 2 Mar 1934, no 115 ('from a country house in the north of England'). Purchased at this sale by James Nicoll, 6½ gns
Christie's London, 18 Nov 1966, London/England, Purchased at Christie's, London, 18 Nov 1966, no 28, by 'Parks', 70 gns.
W. & F.C. Bonham & Sons, Ltd., London, 26 Jun 1967, London/England, Purchased by Agnew's, lot 91.
Agnew's, London, 26 Jun 1967-16 Jun 1970, London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW from Agnew's 1970.