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
* British Institution, London, United Kingdom (1813).
* Suffolk Street, London, United Kingdom (1833).
* Family Portraits,Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, United Kingdom (1875).
* Old Masters Exhibition, Grafton Gallery, London, United Kingdom (1895).
* Second National Exhibition, Woman and Child in Art, London, United Kingdom (1913-1914).
* The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Museum of Art (1936).
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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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fun fact:
Her family affectionately referred to Mary Jemima (at right) as "Mouse."
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Sisters Amabel (left) and Mary Jemima are shown playing on the grounds of their family’s country estate outside London. They wear loose, flowing garments invented specifically for the portrait rather than their usual outdoor dresses. Their father commissioned the painting to hang in the family’s city home in London’s St. James Square and it highlights their status as landowners. Joshua Reynolds painted this portrait after his return from Italy, where his studies inspired him to incorporate classical references. The famous ancient Roman Statue of a Girl with a Dove is echoed in Mary Jemima’s pose as she shields a dove from the family dog.
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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
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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
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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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