Allan Ramsay - Lady Johnstone of Westerhall (provenance details attached to reverse of picture)
Allan Ramsay (Scottish, 1713-1784)
Barbara, Lady Johnstone of Westerhall, in a blue grey dress
signed 'A Ramsay' and dated 1748 (lower right)
oil on canvas, feigned oval
69 x 57.5cm (27 3/16 x 22 5/8in).
Sold for £21,600 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • PROVENANCE: By family descent to Sir Frederic Johnstone, Eighth Baronet;
    Aitken Dott, from whom bought in 1940;
    Lord Whitburgh, and by descent;
    LITERATURE: Smart/Ingamells, 'Allan Ramsay, A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings' New Haven, 1999, ill no 142, p 252

Category: Fine Art / Scottish Art


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