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JOHN CONSTABLE, R.A. (EAST BERGHOLT, SUFFOLK 1776-1837 HAMPSTEAD)
Portrait of Eliza Lewis, bust-length
oil on canvas
17 x 1338 in. (43.2 x 34 cm.)
Provenance
John Lewis, Dedham, and by descent to his son
John Lewis, Brighton, and by inheritance to his wife
Sarah Ann Lewis (d. 1895), Brighton, and by descent to her daughter
Jessie Gutteridge (née Lewis), and by descent in 1916 to her son
E. Dudley Gutteridge, and by descent to
Hubert E.D.Gutteridge, Esq.; Sotheby's, London, 14 July 1976, part of lot 93.
Acquired privately from Sotheby's, London, with its pendant by the present owner on 5 April 1995.
Literature
D.S. MacColl, 'Two Portraits by John Constable,' The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, XLIII, 1923, p. 34.
G. Reynolds, The Early Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, New Haven and London, 1996, I, p. 57, no. 04.13; II, plate 232.
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