Cropley Ashley – Cooper with his sister Mary Anne Ashley-Cooper
Pastel
19 ¾ × 15 ½ inches · 500 × 395 mm
Collections
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury, father of the sitters, presumably commissioned from the artist;
Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1921;
James Thursby-Pelham, 55 Cadogan Gardens, London, and Upton Cressett Hall, Shropshire (1869-1947);
Alfred E Hill, London, by 1934;
Alfred E Pearson, Sheffield & Torquay, 1967;
Pearson sale, Sotheby’s, 12 July 1967, lot 226 (bt Haigh [sic] £800);
P Pearson Hague, acquired in 1967;
And by descent, to 2011.
Exhibitions
London, Royal Academy, 1934, Exhibition of British Art c.1000–1860, no. 665, lent by Alfred E Hill, London.
Literature
G C Williamson, Daniel Gardner, 1921, p. 134;
Royal Academy, Exhibition of British Art c.1000–1860, 1934, commemorative catalogue, p. 161, no. 665, reproduced pl. CLI, shorter catalogue: p. 189, no. 853.
Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800 (online edition).