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Title
Christ and the woman of Samaria
1792
Artist
William Hamilton
England
1751 - 02 Dec 1801
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Details
Date
1792
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
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William Hamilton
Christ and the woman of Samaria
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Exhibition history
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 masters and Australian painting from Australian collections:
- The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow 02 Oct 1979 -
- 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 Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, 28 Sep 2017–03 Dec 2017
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.
Referenced in 19 publications
Bibliography
Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Sydney, 1972, p 17, col illus p 17.
Thomas Sjerrer Ross Boase, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol 26, 'Macklin and Bowyer', London, 1963, pp 148–77: p 167.
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.
Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, p 82, illus p 82.
European Paintings before 1800 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1989, p 40, no 46, illus p 40.
Important English pictures, London, 18 Nov 1966, p 8, no 28.
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).
Art Gallery of New South Wales trustees' minutes 1971, Sydney, 1971, p 7404 (26 Mar).
European painting 16th to 19th centuries and Australian painting of the 19th century [in Russian], Moscow, 1979-1980, np, no 6.
Art Gallery of New South Wales trustees' minutes 1979, Sydney, 1979, p 9129 (22 June).
Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 1979, Sydney, 1979, p 22.
History and legend in some selected paintings at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1980, p 8, illus p 8.
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.
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.
Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 1971, Sydney, 1971, p 5.
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.
Catalogue of a loan collection of oil paintings by British artists born before 1801, Liverpool, 1881, p 28, no 284.
A century of loan exhibitions, 1813-1912, 5 vols, London, 1913-1915, vol 4, 1914, p 1951.
Catalogue of old pictures..., London, 02 Mar 1934, p 17, no 115.