LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

19.21 in. (48.80 cm.) (height) by 30.24 in. (76.80 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

York, City Art Gallery, circa 1948. Whitby Museum. Mexico City, Castle of Chapultepec, 1954, an exhibition devoted solely to this series of eight paintings. Mexico City, the British Embassy, on loan 1954-1999.

Literature:

Henrietta Strickland, Catalogue of the Pictures at Howsham, 1852, mss., recorded on the staircase. A. Oswald,'Howsham Hall - II', Country Life, LXXVII, 1935, pp. 221-223. Los Pinceles de la Historia. El Origen del Reino de la Nueva España, 1680-1750, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, 1999, pp. 87-90.

Provenance:

Almost certainly acquired by Sir Hugh Cholmley, 4th Bt. (1632-1688), and by descent at Whitby, through his only daughter Mary (1667 - 1748), wife of Nathaniel Cholmley, whose son Hugh Cholmley married Catherine Wentworth, heiress to the Howsham estate, in 1741, thence by descent. The contents of Howsham Hall were sold in 1948, and the pictures were subsequently on loan (see below). Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 17 December 1999, lot 61 (£34,500), to the present owner.