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Paintings: G0672
Title
Ann Pitt
Technique
Oil on canvas
Subject
Artist
Dimensions
Height (canvas): 37.3cm
width (canvas): 29.5cm
height (frame): 46cm
width (frame): 39cm
width (canvas): 29.5cm
height (frame): 46cm
width (frame): 39cm
Provenance
Charles Mathews
Other number
Mathews 28 (by Hogarth)
RW 229 (by Hogarth)
CKA 229
RW 229 (by Hogarth)
CKA 229
Exhibition history
1833 London, Queen's Bazaar, Oxford Street, "Mr Mathews's Gallery of Theatrical Portraits" (28)
1951 London, Tate Gallery, "Pictures from the Garrick Club" (38)
1957 London, Guildhall Art Gallery, "William Hogarth"
The sitter, holding a book in her lap and rests her left arm on the back of her chair, wears a large panniered dress, orange-brown at the back with a train, a skirt shot green and pink, and a white lace-trimmed wrap.
If this picture could be dated to the 1720s, an attribution to Hogarth on stylistic grounds might be entertained. However, the costume is later, and the age of the sitter, presumably correctly identified by Mathews, would date the picture about 1770.
If this picture could be dated to the 1720s, an attribution to Hogarth on stylistic grounds might be entertained. However, the costume is later, and the age of the sitter, presumably correctly identified by Mathews, would date the picture about 1770.
