Allan Ramsay, 1713–1784, British, Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, between 1754 and 1755
- Title:
- Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck
- Date:
- between 1754 and 1755
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.510
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.510FR
- Subject Terms:
- column (architectural element) | costume | Georgian | interior | letters (correspondence) | man | paper (fiber product) | portrait | ribbon | robe | ruffle | silk (textile) | wig
- Associated People:
- Boswell, Alexander, Lord Auchinleck (1707–1782), judge
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:994
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Commissioned by Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck (1706-1782) the sitter, from Allan Ramsay (1713-1784), the artist; by descent to his son James Boswell (1740-1795); by descent to his son Alexander Boswell MP (1775-1822); by descent to his daughter Janet Theresa Boswell (after 1799-1836) and her husband William Francis Eliott (1792-1864); by descent to her son Alexander Boswell Eliott (1830-1882); by descent to his son Arthur Augustus Boswell Eliott (1856-1926); by descent to his son Gilbert Alexander Boswell Eliott (1885-1958); by descent to his son Sir Arthur Francis Boswell Eliott (1915-1989); , his sale Sotheby’s, July 1972; acquired by Colnaghi, London; purchased by Paul Mellon (1907-1999), 1965 [a]; by whom gifted to the Yale Center for British of Art, 1981 [b]. Citations: [a] Cormack, Malcolm, A concise catalogue of paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, 1985, New Haven, Connecticut : Yale Center for British Art, 1985, p.182 [b] ditto
David Bindman, Hogarth, Thames & Hudson, p. 150, no. 114, , NJ18.H67 B56 2021 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 182-183, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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