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Mrs Robert Sandilands

Pompeo Batoni

Art Funded
1987
Dimensions
69 x 57 cm
Vendor
Sotheby's
Half-length portrait of Mrs Robert Sandilands, nee Isabella Byres, wearing black and white, she turns towards an invisible speaker.

Signed: Pompeo de Batoni, PINX. ROM. 1781.

Provenance

James Byres of Tonley (brother of sitter); recorded in the dining room of his house in Rome, May 1790; at Tonley House, Aberdeenshire in the 19th century, & until 1911; sale, private collection, Christie's, 1977; Legatt, Sotheby's 1986.

Oil on canvas

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Art we’ve helped buy at Kenwood

Window seat
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View of London from Highgate
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The Young Shepherdess
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The Artist in the Character of Design
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Rinaldo and Armida & Gualterus and Griselda
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Portrait of William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
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Portrait of Sir Godfrey Vassal Webster, Bt
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Portrait of John Joseph Merlin
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Portrait of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord Keeper
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Pair of Side-Tables
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Pair of giltwood pier glasses and sidetables
 Acquired 1994
Mrs Robert Sandilands
 Acquired 1987
Landscape with Sportsmen
 Acquired 1987
Dressing the Kitten
 Acquired 1996
Disarming of Cupid
 Acquired 1955
Commode
 Acquired 1962
Captain Sir John Lindsay
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A pair of hall benches
 Acquired 2012
1) Landscape with Lake; 2) Landscape with Temple
 Acquired 1975

The Art Fund has helped buy 26 works for display at Kenwood House, including Joseph Wright of Derby's Dressing the Kitten and Portrait of John Joseph Merlin by Thomas Gainsborough.

In 2012 a pair of hall benches designed by Robert Adam were returned to the house after being 'lost' for 90 years, thanks to Art Fund support. The seats left Kenwood in 1922 when the Mansfields sold off the house's furniture at auction and for many years their whereabouts were unknown. It was only thanks to a photograph of the entrance hall published in Country Life in 1913 that the benches were able to be identified as originating from Kenwood. They now stand in the antechamber once again.

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