Portrait of Mrs Abraham Bracebridge and her daughter

George Romney (1734 - 1802)

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

1781 - 1784

Mary Elizabeth Bracebridge (1757-1819), daughter of Sir Charles Holte of Aston Hall, Warwickshire and her daughter Mary Holte Bracebridge (b.1776). The girl leans on her mother who is seated and holding a book.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 160 x 123 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £4800 ( Total: £64,800)
• ArtFunded in: 1986
• Vendor: Christie's

Provenance

By descent in the Bracebridge family until 1920; by 1926 in an American private collection via Duveen brothers, remained in the USA until 1985.

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