id: 122349
accession number: 1942.645
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Portrait of the Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke, c. 1761. Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723–1792). Oil on canvas; framed: 224.5 x 201.3 x 11.4 cm (88 3/8 x 79 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.); unframed: 196 x 170 cm (77 3/16 x 66 15/16 in.); former: 223.5 x 198 x 9 cm (88 x 77 15/16 x 3 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance 1942.645
title: Portrait of the Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke
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creation date: c. 1761
creation date earliest: 1756
creation date latest: 1766
current location: 203A British Painting and Decorative Arts
creditline: Bequest of John L. Severance
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culture: England, 18th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - British before 1800
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723–1792) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 224.5 x 201.3 x 11.4 cm (88 3/8 x 79 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.); Unframed: 196 x 170 cm (77 3/16 x 66 15/16 in.); Former: 223.5 x 198 x 9 cm (88 x 77 15/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Venetian Tradition
opening date: 1956-11-08T05:00:00
The Venetian Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 8, 1956-January 1, 1957).
title: Style, Truth and the Portrait
opening date: 1963-10-01T04:00:00
Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963).
title: Sir Joshua Reynolds
opening date: 1985-10-09T04:00:00
Sir Joshua Reynolds. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (January 16-March 31, 1986).
title: CMA @ Oberlin (second rotation)
opening date: 2006-04-03T00:00:00
CMA @ Oberlin (second rotation). Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 3-June 5, 2006).
title: British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020)
opening date: 2020-06-30T04:00:00
British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'British Institution, London, United Kingdom (1813).', 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': 'Suffolk Street, London, United Kingdom (1833).', 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': 'Family Portraits,Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, United Kingdom (1875).', 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': 'Old Masters Exhibition, Grafton Gallery, London, United Kingdom (1895).', 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': 'Second National Exhibition, Woman and Child in Art, London, United Kingdom (1913-1914).', 'opening_date': '1913-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Museum of Art (1936).', 'opening_date': '1936-01-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston, later Second Earl of Hardwicke [1720-1790], St. James Square, London, by descent to his daughter Amabel Yorke, later Hume-Campbell, 1st Countess de Grey
date: c. 1761-1790
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Amabel Hume-Campbell, 1st Countess de Grey [1751-1833], by descent to her great niece Anne Florence de Grey
date: 1790-1833
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Anne Florence de Grey, Baroness Lucas [died 1880], by descent to her son, Francis Thomas de Grey
date: 1833-1880
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Francis Thomas de Grey, Seventh Earl Cowper, Seventh Baron Lucas and Tenth Baron Dingwall [1834-1905], by descent to his nephew Auberon Thomas Herbert
date: 1880-1905
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Auberon Thomas Herbert, Eighth Baron Lucas and Eleventh Baron Dingwall [1876-1916], by descent to his sister Nan Ino Cooper
date: 1905-1916
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Nan Ino Cooper, Ninth Baroness Lucas and Twelfth Baroness Dingwall [1880-1958], consigned to sale at Christie's London
date: 1916-1922
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(Christies’s, London, May 26, 1922, lot 78)
date: 1922
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(Agnew, London)
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(M. Knoedler & Co., New York)
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John L. Severance, Cleveland, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1942-
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RELATED WORKS
id: 154630
The Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke, c. 1761. Edward Fisher (British, 1722–1785), after Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723–1792). Mezzotint; image: 41.7 x 36.3 cm (16 7/16 x 14 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin 1989.236
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CITATIONS
Cotton, W., and John Burnet. Sir Joshua Reynolds and His Works. London, 1856.
page number: Mentioned: P. 36
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Cook, Clarence. Art and Artists of Our Time. New York, NY: Selmar Hess, 1888.
page number: Reproduced: p. 37; Mentioned: p. 37-38
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Graves, Algernon, and William Vine Cronin. A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds. [With Plates.]. London: H. Graves & Co, 1899.
page number: Mentioned: P. 1084
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Armstrong, Walter. Sir Joshua Reynolds, First President of the Royal Academy. London, United Kingdom: W. Heinemann, 1900.
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Bryan, Michael, and George Charles Williamson. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1903.
page number: Reproduced: p. 219
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Baldry, A. L. Sir Joshua Reynolds. London: George Newnes, 1905.
page number: Mentioned: P. xxxii
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Graves, Algernon. Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813-1912. London, United Kingdom: Graves, 1913.
page number: Mentioned: pgs. 1020, 1041, 1054, 1085, 1091, vol. 3
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"American Art News, Vol. 20, No. 31." American Art News 20, no. 31 (May 13, 1922): 1-10.
page number: Reproduced: P. 4
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25589970.
Marillier, H. C. "Christie's" 1766 to 1925. London: Constable & Company, Ltd, 1926.
page number: Mentioned: P. 196
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Toynbee, Paget. "Horace Walpole's Journals of Visits to Country Seats, etc." The Walpole Society, XVI (1927--28)
page number: Reproduced: p. 40
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Waterhouse, Ellis Kirkham. Reynolds. London, United Kingdom: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1941.
page number: Mentioned: p. 117; Reproduced: p. 121, pl. 70
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Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.
page number: Reproduced: p. [18], Plate VI, cat. no. 14; Mentioned: p. 22, cat. no. 14
url: https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n26
Francis, Henry S. "Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXIX, no. 9 (November, 1942):131-136.
page number: Reproduced: p. 133; Mentioned: p. 136
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Richard, Edgar P. "Recent Acquisitions: Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke, by Reynolds." The Art Quarterly VI, no. 2 (Spring 1943): 146-149.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 146-149
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Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945.
page number: Reproduced: p. 18
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n26
Flexner, James Thomas. John Singleton Copley. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1948.
page number: Mentioned: p. 32, 132; Reproduced: pl. 3
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Talbot, William S. "Thomas Gainsborough: George Pitt, First Lord Rivers." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LVIII, no. 11 (November, 1971): 258-268.
page number: Reproduced: p. 259, fig. 2
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Coe, Nancy. The History of the Collecting of European Paintings and Drawings in the City of Cleveland. 1955.
page number: Mentioned: p. 234-235, vol. II; Reproduced: no. 14, XLVII
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 469
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n86
Milliken, William Mathewson. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York, NY: H.N. Abrams, 1958.
page number: Reproduced: p. 47
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Argan, Giulio Carlo. "Reynolds." In Encyclopedia of World Art. Bernard S. Myers, ed., 202-207. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959.
page number: Mentioned: P. 206
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Gimpel, René. Journal d'un collectionneur, marchand de tableaux. [Paris]: Calmann-Lévy, 1963.
page number: Mentioned: P. 236
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 154
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n178
Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.
page number: Reproduced: no. 194
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Cormack, Malcolm, "The Ledgers of Sir Joshua Reynolds." The Walpole Society, XLII (1968-70)
page number: Reproduced: p. 121
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 154
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n178
Hamilton, Edward. The Engraved Works, of Sir Joshua Reynolds; A Catalogue Raisonné of the Engravings Made After His Paintings from 1755-1822, with Descriptions of the States of Each Plate, Biographical Sketches of the Persons Represented, a List of Pictures Which Have Been Engraved, Names of the Possessors, and Other Particulars. Amsterdam, Netherlands: G.W. Hissink, 1973.
page number: Reproduced: p. 139
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Waterhouse, Ellis Kirkham. Reynolds. New York, NY: Phaidon; [distributed by Praeger], 1973.
page number: Reproduced: pl. 26
url:
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 192
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n212
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: Mentioned: p. 210-212; Reproduced: p. 211
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Flexner, James Thomas. John Singleton Copley. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 1993.
page number: Pl. 11
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Kirsh, Andrea, and Rustin S. Levenson. Seeing Through Paintings: Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.
page number: Reproduced: p. 167, no. 174
url:
Wiles, Stephanie, "British Invasion", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 46 no. 04, April 2006
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: 8-9
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2006-04/page/8
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