Description
Waist-length portrait of Robert Harcourt Twycross (b. 1769?), facing slightly to the right, with powdered hair, wearing a black coat, white shirt and white stock on a sky-blue background.
Provenance
Herbert Lawton [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A.J. Fink, 1961(?) [mode of acquisition unknown]; A.J. Fink Foundation Inc., Baltimore, 1961, by gift; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.
Inscriptions
[Inscription] Handwritten on reverse, in pencil: Robert T(?????); [Inscription] Center in ink: Robert Harcourt Twycross; [Label] On reverse, lower center: Property of / The A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc. / Year 1961; [Number] On label: 12; [Number] On label in red: 1013
Credit
Gift of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, in memory of Abraham Jay Fink, 1963