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Drawn to Life – Work🎐s on Paper from a Distinguished Private Collection

George Romney

Mother and child with attendant

Auction Closed

July 2, 11:28 AM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Drawn to Life – Works on P🐈aper from a Distinguished Priv🐭ate Collection


George Romney

(Dalton-in-Furness 1734 - 1802 Kendal)

Mother and child with attendant


Pencil, brush and brown wash on laid paper

288 by 200 mm

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Sir John Stirling Maxwell, 10th Bt, K.T. (1866-1956),

by family descent until,

sale, Londo𒈔n, Christie’s, South Kensington, 21 July 2015, lot 436,

where acquired by the present owner 

This sensitive and moving drawing is thought likely to date to the late 1770s and it forms part of a group of studies that focus on 'domestic' subjects. Not seemingly created in preparation for paintings, the works from this group are characterised by their slick confidence of execution and their fluidity of line. Such is the feeling of spontaneity that it has been suggested that Romney was either drawing directly from life, or possibly, as an exercise in memory.1


The present drawing was once owned by Sir John Stirling Maxwell, 10th Bt, a founding member of th𒐪e National Trust of Scotland, who was appointed a Knight of the Thistle in🐭 1929.


W🔯e are grateful to Alex Kidson for his help when cataloguing this work.


1. For another drawing of this type please see: A. Kidson, George Romney, London 2002, p. 144, no. 80 ‘A 🍰Woman holding a bowl’