Annetta Coke
1758
Painter, British, 1723 - 1792
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 75.57 × 62.87 cm (29 3/4 × 24 3/4 in.)
framed: 100.01 × 87.31 × 8.57 cm (39 3/8 × 34 3/8 × 3 3/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.45
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The sitter, Annetta Coke [1738-1791, later Mrs. Lewis Cage], Milgate, Kent, England.[1] by descent to her son, the Reverend Charles Cage [1769-1849].[2] (Stafford Gallery, London).[3] (Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, London); purchased 1903 by William Andrews Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest April 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The painting was probably commissioned in celebration of the sitter's marriage to Lewis Cage [d. 1800] on 17 January 1759.
[2] According to Lorna Scott, the great-great-great-great granddaughter of the sitter, Charles Cage bequeathed the portrait to the owner of Milgate House. See correspondence dated 9 and 10 July 2003, between Scott and Corcoran curator Laura Coyle in NGA curatorial files.
[3] See letter from Sir Ellis Waterhouse to Edward J. Nygren, Corcoran curator, dated 28 September 1977, in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1978
The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 April - 16 July 1978.
2001
Antiquities to Impressionism: The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 3 November 2001 - 4 February 2002, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
Bibliography
1966
Martin, David F. "Naming Paintings." Art Journal 25, no. 3 (Spring 1966): 252-256.
2000
Mannings, David. Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings. 2 vols. New Haven and London, 2000: 138, no. 385.
Inscriptions
upper left, possibly from the 19th century: ANNETTA. D. OF / EDWARD COKE, / WIFE OF LEWIS CAGE / OF MILGATE, KENT; lower left reverse: J. R. 1758
Wikidata ID
Q46625383