id: 95269 accession number: 1916.1041 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1041 updated: 2020-11-04 19:12:38.250000 Portrait of Jane Hoskyns, c. 1778-1780. George Romney (British, 1734-1802). Oil on canvas; framed: 102 x 89 x 10.5 cm (40 3/16 x 35 1/16 x 4 1/8 in.); unframed: 69.8 x 59 cm (27 1/2 x 23 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade 1916.1041 title: Portrait of Jane Hoskyns title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1778-1780 creation date earliest: 1778 creation date latest: 1780 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade copyright: --- culture: England, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - British before 1800 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * George Romney (British, 1734-1802) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 102 x 89 x 10.5 cm (40 3/16 x 35 1/16 x 4 1/8 in.); Unframed: 69.8 x 59 cm (27 1/2 x 23 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 12, 1936). title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland Art Loan Exposition. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 25-December 17, 1913). --- PROVENANCE Sir John Chandos Reade (the sitter's son) date: footnotes: citations: Shipton Court (sale: Christie's London, 13 July 1895, no. 14) date: footnotes: citations: (A. Tooth, London, 1895) date: footnotes: citations: Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade date: footnotes: citations: Sir John Chandos Reade, Seventh Bart. (1785-1868), Shipton Court, Axon, England (sold, Christie’s, London, July 13, 1895, no. 14, to Tooth and Sons, London); date: footnotes: citations: Tooth and Sons (London, England), sold to Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Wade, 1895 date: footnotes: citations: 1895-1916 Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Wade (Gates Mills, Ohio), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916. date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1916- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The sitter married Sir John Read in 1774, who also sat for a portrait by the artist in 1788. Born in Lancashire, Romney first apprenticed in his father’s cabinetmaker’s shop. He worked in the north of England until 1762, when he settled in London. There he became a successful portraitist, alongside Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough. As with many successful portraitists, his heart lay elsewhere and he dreamed of making history paintings, but his plans for grandiose compositions rarely advanced beyond drawings. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Ward, Thomas Humphry, and W. Roberts. Romney; A Biographical and Critical Essay, with a Catalogue Raisonné of His Works. London, United Kingdom: T. Agnew & Sons, 1904. page number: Mentioned: p. 1, 86-88, 90-91, 114, and 11, 81 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 214; Mentioned: p. 215 url: Underhill, Gertrude. "Some Recent Acquisitions of The Cleveland Museum of Art." Art and Archeology, The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art, XVI (1923): 130. page number: Reproduced: p. 130 url: Milliken, William Mathewson. The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York, NY: The Art news, 1936. page number: Reproduced: no. 236 url: Coe, Nancy. The History of the Collecting of European Paintings and Drawings in the City of Cleveland. Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College, 1955. page number: Mentioned: p. 11; Reproduced: p.31254, no. url: Lurie, Ann T. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings. Part Three. Cleveland, OH The Museum, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 214-215; Reproduced: p. 214 url: Christie, Manson & Woods, London. Catalogue of Important Pictures by Old Masters and of the Early English School: Including Masterpieces of Murillo, Jacob Ruysdael and Weenix, from the Clewer Manor Collection, Also Choice Examples of Watteau, Hobbema & W.V. De Velde the Property of a Nobleman, Also the Family Portraits of the Late Sir John Chandos Reade, Sixth Baronet, Fine Works of Canaletto & Rembrandt, the Property of J. Carpenter Garnier, Esq., the Celebrated Engraved Portrait of Admiral Viscount Nelson, by J. Hoppner, R.A., the Property of the Rt. Hon. Viscount Bridport, and Other Fine Portraits by T. Gainsborough, R.A., Sir J. Reynolds, G. Romney, &C. July 13, 1895. page number: p. 5, Lot 14 url: "The Wade Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 1 (1917): 3-12. page number: Mentioned: p. 3; reproduced: p. 5 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136053 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1041/1916.1041_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1041/1916.1041_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1041/1916.1041_full.tif