Details
The first depicting Andrew Plummer, facing dexter, with Rakow collection label (T-6); the second depicting Dugald Stewart, dated 1799, also dexter; the third depicting Hugh Blair, D.D., dated 1791, facing sinister, with typed label 'WARREN' numbered 792, signed 'Tassie F', in oval ebonized mahogany frames
578 (14.9 cm.) x 478 in. (12.4 cm.); 534 (14.6 am.) x 478 in. (12.4 cm.) and 558 (14.3 cm.) x 412 in. (11.4 cm.) (overall)
Provenance
Andrew Plummer, sitter: Dr. and Mrs. Leonard S. Rakow, New York.
Bought from Mallett, New York 19 December 2001 (GN 418), $2,100.
Hugh Blair, sitter: bought from Mallett, New York, 19 December 2001 (GQ073), $2,100.
Literature
J.M. Gray, James and William Tassie, as Biographical and Critical Sketch, Edinburgh, 1894, no. 372, pl. XVII.
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