George Romney
Portrait of Emma Hamilton (1765-1815) as a Bacchante, 1780s
Oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
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This portrait of Emma Hamilton as a bacchante, half length, in a white dress with a blue sash and a crown of Laurel leaves, against a background showing Vesuvius erupting.
Provenance
Bought by Sir John Fleming, later Baron de Tabley, in 1796, and at Tabley until 1825;thence by descent to Lord de Tabley, by 1857 until 1884;
thence by descent to C. Leicester Warren, Tabley House;
Christie's, 20 May 1927, lot 39 to Knoedler, New York, who sold it in 1928 to William Randolph Hearst, and given before 1933 to
Marion Davies;
until 1947, when given to The Los Angeles County Museum of Art until deaccessioned in 1990
Exhibitions
Manchester, ''Art Treasures Exhibition'', 1857, no. 83;London, Royal Academy, ''Winter Exhibition'', 1884, no. 211;
San Francisco, California, Palace of the Legion of Honour, ''Loan Exhibition of English Painting'', no. 54
Literature
W Corey, ''Catalogue'', 1819, p. 76;Young, ''Catalogue of Pictures by British Artists in the Possession of Sir John Fleming Leicester, Bt. 1", no. 25;
J. Romney, ''Memoirs'', 1830, p. 181;
H. Ward and W. Roberts, ''Romney'' 1904, II, p.
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