Private collection, USA
Rebecca Lady Rushout and her daughter Anne
- Black and white chalk with watercolour on blue paper
- 14 ½ × 11 ⅜ inches · 370 × 290 mm
- Inscribed verso:
‘RN Angelica Kauffman Sketch of Ld Northwick’s Daughter’ and in another hand:
‘EGSC’ [E. G. Spencer-Churchill]
Drawn 1773
Collections
- Rebecca, Lady Rushout;
- By descent to John Rushout, 2nd Lord Northwick, son of the above;
- By descent to George Rushout, 3rd Lord Northwick, nephew of the above;
- Elizabeth Augusta Bateman-Hanbury, wife of the above;
- Capt Edward G Spencer-Churchill; grandson of the above;
- His sale, Sotheby’s, Nov 4, 1920, lot 383;
- W.H. Stephenson;
- Reginald Humphris;
- By descent, private collection to 2018
Literature
- Lady Victoria Manners and Dr G.C. Williamson, Angelica Kauffmann R.A.: Her Life and her Works, London, 1924, repr. p. 64;
- Angela Rosenthal, ‘Kauffman and Portraiture’ in Ed. Wendy Wassyng Roworth, Angelica Kauffman: A Continental Artist in Georgian England, London, 1992, p.111;
- Ed. Bettina Baumgärtel, Angelika Kauffmann 1741-1807: Eine Dichterin mit dem Pinsel, exh. cat., Düsseldorf, 1998, cat. no.95, listed under ‘zeichnung’ as being in the collection of W.H. Stephenson, p.211.
