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JOHN DOWNMAN, A.R.A. (RUABON, WALES 1750-1824 WREXHAM)
Portrait of Mrs Fortescue, seated, half-length, seen in profile to the right, holding a letter
signed and dated 'J Downman/ Pxt 1787' (lower left)
pencil, stump and watercolor on paper
9 x 734 in. (22.7 x 19.5 cm), oval
Executed in 1787
Provenance
Vente de la Succession de Madame Ulmann; Drouot Montaigne, Mes Ader Picard Tajan Ferry, Paris, 7 February 1990, lot 66.
Anonymous sale; Artcurial, Paris, 9 June 2012, lot 66.
with John Mitchell, London.
with Elle Shushan, Pennsylvania.
Acquired by Irene Roosevelt Aitken from the above, 2015.
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