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Creator:
Sir Joshua Reynolds, born in Plympton, England, 1723; active in England and Italy; died in London, England, 1792
Title:
Anne Seymour Damer (née Conway) [2024, YCBA]
Former Title(s):

Anne Seymour Damer

Hon. Mrs. Seymour Damer

Mrs. Damer [2000, Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds, a complete catalogue of his paintings, catalogue raisonné]

"Ditto [a lady], half length" [1773, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
Date:
1773
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
49 1/2 x 39 inches (125.7 x 99.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1987.6.1
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1987.6.1FR
Subject Terms:
artist | choker | dark | landscape | long hair | outerwear | portrait | robes | sculptor | sky | woman
Associated People:
Damer (née Conway), Anne Seymour (1749–1828), sculptor and author
Access:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1361
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Commissioned by Anne Seymour Damer (née Conway) (1748–1828), the sitter, from Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), the artist [a]; ...; acquired by Henry Dawson-Damer, third Earl of Portarlington (1822–1889), Emo Court, County Laois, Ireland by 1883 [b]; ...; acquired by Christie, Manson & Woods, London, England by 1887 [c]; purchased by Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, England for James Price (1808–1895), Devon, England, May 28, 1887 [d]; purchased at auction by Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, England at Christie’s, Manson & Woods, in London, England, June 15, 1895 (lot 90, ‘Hon. Mrs. Seymour Damer), in "Highly Important Collection of Pictures, Chiefly of the Early English School" [e]; purchased by Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, England, June 18, 1895 [f]; purchased by ‘Havemeyer,’ June 18, 1895 [g]; ...; acquired by Harry Payne Bingham (1887–1955), New York, NY, United States [h]; by inheritance to his wife, Melissa Williams Bingham (née Yuille) (1898–1986), New York, NY, United States; bequest, to the Yale Center for British Art, 1987.

Citations:
[a] David Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings (Yale University Press, 2000), 159.
[b] F.G. Stephens, Exhibition of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. with Historical Notes (London: Grosvenor Gallery, 1883), 47. https://archive.org/exhibitionofwork00reyn.
[c] Thomas Agnew & Sons Picture Stock Books, 1885–91, National Gallery, Research Centre. NGA27/1/1/7 (Stock No. 4590), 71. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/research-centre/agnew-s-stock-books/reference-nga27-1-1-7-1885-91.
[d] Ibid.
[e] Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, Catalogue of Highly Important Collection of Pictures, Chiefly of the Early English School, formed during the last thirty years by that eminent connoisseur, James Price, Esq., deceased (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1895),
[f] Thomas Agnew & Sons Picture Stock Books, 1891–98, National Gallery, Research Centre. NGA27/1/1/8 (Stock No. 7326), 79. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/research-centre/agnew-s-stock-books/reference-nga27-1-1-8-1891-98.
[g] Arthur Tooth & Sons, Stock Book 1, 1892 January 1–1896 June 30, The Getty Research Institute. Accession no. 860679 (bx. 8) (Stock No. 524), 103. http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa860679.
[h] Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds, 159.

Alexandra Gent, Practice Makes Perfect : Reynold's Painting Technique, National Gallery Technical Bulletin, vol. 35, National Gallery Company, 2014, fig. 19, N8554 L65 35 (CONSERVATION, YCBA) vol. 35 is entitled : " Joshua Reynolds in the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection " [ORBIS]

Grosvenor Gallery, Catalogue of the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery MDCCCLXXXIII-IV, illustrated with photo-intaglio plates after the originals by Alfred Dawson. , Chiswick Press, London, 1884, pp. 47-48, no. 98, NJ18 R36 G76 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

David Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds, a complete catalogue of his paintings , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2000, v. 1, p. 159; v. 2, p.420, no. 477, fig. 1027, NJ18 R36 A12 M35 2000 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

South Kensington Museum, Catalogue of the second special exhibition of national portraits commencing with the reign of William and Mary and ending with the year MDCCC, on loan to the South Kensington museum. May 1, 1867., London, 1867, p. 120, no. 532, N7598 S6 1867 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Ellis Waterhouse, Reynolds, Kegan Paul, Trench Trübner, London, 1941, ]. 63 (RA 1773), NJ18 R36 W37 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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