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George Romney: Lady Elizabeth Hamilton (1753–1797), Countess of Derby  wikidata:Q12097501 reasonator:Q12097501
Artist
George Romney  (1734–1802)  wikidata:Q371280
 
George Romney
Description British painter and portraitist
Date of birth/death 15 December 1734 (in Julian calendar) Edit this at Wikidata 15 November 1802 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Dalton-in-Furness Edit this at Wikidata Kendal Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Paris; Parma; Rome; Venice; Kendal; Lancaster; London; York Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q371280
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Title
English: Lady Elizabeth Hamilton (1753–1797), Countess of Derby
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Depicted people Elizabeth Smith-Stanley, Countess of Derby Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1776
date QS:P571,+1776-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
–78
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 127 cm (50 in); width: 101.6 cm (40 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,127U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,101.6U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Accession number
49.7.57
Object history the sitter, Lady Elizabeth Stanley, Countess of Derby (in 1779); the sitter's great-grandson, Granville George Leveson Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, London (by 1885–87; bought in Paris; sold for £3.250 to Tennant); Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet, London (1887–d. 1906; cat., 1896); Sir Edward Priaulx Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner, London (1906–d. 1920); Sir Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd Baron Glenconner (1920–23; sold for £25.000 to Knoedler); [Knoedler, New York, 1923–24; sold for $125.000 to Bache]; Jules S. Bache, New York (1924–d. 1944; his estate, 1944–49; cats., 1929, unnumbered; 1937, no. 62; 1943, no. 62)
Exhibition history

London. Royal Academy of Arts. "Winter Exhibition," January–March 1885, no. 69 (lent by Earl Granville).

Glasgow. location unknown. "International Exhibition of Industry, Science, and Art," 1888, no. 223 (lent by Sir Charles Tennant).

London. Royal Academy of Arts. "Winter Exhibition," January–March 1892, no. 27 (lent by Sir Charles Tennant).

Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum. "Loan Collection of Pictures by French and British Artists of the 18th Century," 1902, no. 107 (lent by Sir Charles Tennant).

New York. M. Knoedler & Co.. "Ten Paintings from the Tennant Glenconner Collection," November 17–29, 1924, no. 7.

San Francisco. California Palace of the Legion of Honor. "English Painting of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries," June 6–July 9, 1933, no. 52 (lent by Jules S. Bache).

New York. World's Fair. "Masterpieces of Art: European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300–1800," May–October 1939, no. 317 (lent by the Jules S. Bache collection).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Bache Collection," June 16–September 30, 1943, no. 62.

Leningrad [St. Petersburg]. State Hermitage Museum. "100 Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum," May 22–July 27, 1975, no. 42.

Moscow. State Pushkin Museum. "100 Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum," August 28–November 2, 1975, no. 42.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Eighteenth-Century Woman," December 12, 1981–September 5, 1982, unnumbered cat. (p. 53).

Liverpool. Walker Art Gallery. "George Romney, 1734–1802," February 8–April 21, 2002, no. 54.

London. National Portrait Gallery. "George Romney, 1734–1802," May 30–August 18, 2002, no. 54.

San Marino, Calif. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. "George Romney, 1734–1802," September 15–December 1, 2002, no. 54.
Credit line The Jules Bache Collection, 1949
Inscriptions Romney's studio at Cavendish Square, London
Notes Engraved in mezzotint by John Dean in 1780 (Metropolitan Museum of Art), by Mrs. M. Cormack in June 1898, and by G. H. Every in September 1898.
References
Source/Photographer https://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/437500

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