Name: JOHN DOWNMAN, A.R.A. (RUABON, WALES 1750-1824 WREXHAM)
Brand: Portrait of Eliza Pulleine, daughter of Henry Pulleine of Carleton Hall, small half-length, in a black dress and hat with black and white ostrich feathers
Price: 100.00 USD
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JOHN DOWNMAN, A.R.A. (RUABON, WALES 1750-1824 WREXHAM)
Portrait of Eliza Pulleine, daughter of Henry Pulleine of Carleton Hall, small half-length, in a black dress and hat with black and white ostrich feathers
signed and dated 'J. Downman/ Pt 1787' (lower right)
black and red chalk with stump and watercolor, heightened with white on paper, octagonal
9 x 7¹⁄₂ in. (23 x 18.8 cm)
Executed in 1787

with Agnew's, London.
with Knoedler, New York.
Anonymous sale; Bloomsbury Auctions, New York, 6 May 2009, lot 35.
with Elle Shushan, Pennsylvania.
Acquired by Irene Roosevelt Aitken from the above, 2012

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Eliza Pulleine (1769-1788) was the youngest daughter of Henry Pulleine (1734-1803), of Carleton Hall, Yorkshire. Carleton was purchased by Henry Pulleine's grandfather, Thomas, master of the stud to King William III and High Sheriff of Yorkshire, in around 1700. The house no longer exists, but it seems that it was near the village of Stanwick, North Yorkshire, as several members of the family were buried in the church there. The later seat of the Pulleine family was Crakehall Hall, near Bedale, North Yorkshire, about fifteen miles south of Stanwick. Eliza died unmarried, aged 19 and the present portrait, executed the year before her death,depicts her as a stylish, elegant young woman, wearing a fashionable dress and elaborate hat, before an extensive landscape, probably referring to her family's great estates.