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Portrait of Jean Abercromby, Mrs George Morison of Haddo

Artist: Allan Ramsay (1713 - 1784)

Location: York Art Gallery

Date: circa 1767

Materials: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 75.5 x 62.5cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £55,000 (Total: £625,000)

Vendor: Richard Green

Review number: 5331 (2003)

Provenance:
By descent in the family of the Earls of Duff; Agnew, 1897; Thomas Baring; thence by descent; Sotheby's, 2002; Richard Green.

Description:
Half length portrait of Jean Abercromby, daughter of General James Abercromby of Glassaugh, Banffshire and later wife of Captain George Morison of Haddow. The work recalls Ramsay's celebrated portrait of his second wife, Margaret Lindsay of 1759 in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.

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