Strawberry Hill ID: sh-000070
c.1759
Ramsay, Allan (Scottish painter, 1713-1784)
Painting
Oil on canvas
61 x 50.2
The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University
Strawberry Hill History
Object History
Provenance: [Henry Seymour Conway after 1765]; [Anne Seymour Conway Damer,(his daughter),(1749-1828)]; Louisa Campbell, her executrix, (d.1853);by descent to David Campbell-Johnston of Carnsalloch, Dunfriesshire; 1953, June 25, bt W.S. Lewis; The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Exhibition History: "Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture collected by Yale Alumni." Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, CT. 5/19-6/26/1960.
"The Age of Horace Walpole and Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis." Trinity College. Hartford, CT. 10/29-11/19/1973.
Bibliography: W. S. Lewis, Rescuing Horace Walpole (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1978), reproduced p. 225.
Alastair Smart, Allan Ramsay: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), No.529.
John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery, Mid-Georgian Portraits, 1760-1790(London: National Portrait Gallery, 2004).
