LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Oil on canvas

Measurements:

50.00 in. (127.00 cm.) (height) by 40.00 in. (101.60 cm.) (width)

Provenance:

By descent to Charles Edmund Dashwood (1857-1935); By whom sold ("The Dashwood Heirlooms," removed from Wherstead Park, Ipswich), London, Christie's, June 26, 1914, lot 95, Gooden & Fox, London, acquired from the above; Benjamin de Casseres, London; William Goadby Loew, New York; His deceased (anonymous) sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, April 27, 1956, lot 317; P. Bader, acquired from the above; Joseph A. Patrick, circa 1960; Estate of the above, Sotheby's, New York, June 9, 2011, lot 110; Private collection, Fort Worth, Texas, acquired from the above. According to an old label preserved on the reverse of the painting, Alice, Countess of Shipbrook, was daughter and co-heiress of Samuel Ibbetson of Denton Park, Yorkshire. She married the English politician Francis Vernon (1715-1783), Esq., of Bacton, Suffolk, who was created Earl of Shipbrook in 1777. A pastel of their son, Francis (1752-1760), by Cotes, is in the Frick Collection, New York. A half-length version of the present portrait, within a painted oval, was sold at Christie's, London, July 16, 1998, lot 11. The sitter was also painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1755 when Mrs. Vernon. This portrait once belonged to William Goadby Loew (1876-1955), a prominent New York stockbroker and society figure. He and his wife, Mrs. Florence Baker Loew, built one of the last (1932) and most elegant mansions in the Carnegie Hall neighborhood of New York at 56 East 93rd Street (now part of the Spence School). Upon Mr. Loew's death in 1955 this portrait, which hung in his New York residence, was sold at auction (see provenance).