A Graduate of Merton College, Oxford
c. 1754/1755
Painter, British, 1698 - 1778
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 127.7 x 102.1 cm (50 1/4 x 40 3/16 in.)
framed: 150.2 x 124.5 x 10.2 cm (59 1/8 x 49 x 4 in.) -
Accession
1951.7.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
W.S.B. Grimson by 1930.[1] (M. Knoedler & Co.), London; probably purchased from (M. Knoedler & Co.), New York, by Mrs. Henry C. Lancashire; by descent to her daughter, Mrs. Richard Southgate, Manchester, Massachusetts; gift to NGA, 1951.
[1] A letter to Grimson about the picture, from the then Warden of Merton, in NGA curatorial files, is dated 20 March 1930.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1967
Loan for display with permanent collection, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences (now Chrysler Museum), Virginia, 1967-1972.
Bibliography
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 67, as Joseph Highmore, A Scholar of Merton College, Oxford.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 59, repro., as Joseph Highmore, A Scholar of Merton College, Oxford.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 174, repro., as Joseph Highmore, A Scholar of Merton College, Oxford.
1979
Lewis, Alison Shepherd. "Joseph Highmore: 1692-1780." Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1979: 638.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 201, repro., as A Scholar of Merton College, Oxford
1992
Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 150-152, color repro. 151.
Wikidata ID
Q20178066