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John Opie

Portrait of Lady King

c. 1800

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  • Artist follower of John Opie (British, 1761–1807)
  • Title Portrait of Lady King
  • Date c. 1800
  • Medium Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions unframed | 30 x 25 3/16 in.
  • Credit line Gift of Robert S. Brookings
  • Object number WU 3959

Real / Radical / Psychological: The Collection on Display
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/09/2016 - 01/15/2017

“The Home Exhibition”: A Collection of Paintings Owned in St. Louis
Saint Louis Art Museum, 06/25/1911 - 10/31/1911

Robert S. Brookings

Inscription [lower center of frame lining, rectangular brass plaque] [printed in black ink:] LADY KING / (née Trentcroft) / J. OPIE. R.A. / 1761_ [large space] 1807.

Inscription [verso, right of top stretcher, browned rectangular label] [written in script in black ink:] Lady King [illegible text] Trentcroft / by J. Opie R.A. / Collection of Sophia Marchioness / of Anglesey deceased of the / [illegible text] libes [?] Tunbridge [?] Wells.

Inscription [verso, center left framelining and lower center frame lining upside-down, stamped in brown ink:] MADE IN FINLAND

Inscription [verso, lower center of frame, written in white chalk:] D4

Inscription [verso, upper left corner of frame, written upside-down in charcoal:] 22 [upper center of frame, upside-down:] S [g?] -3107 [upper right corner of frame:] 49 [upper left of frame:] 49

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