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Robert Harcourt Twycross

English (Artist)
ca. 1800
watercolor on ivory
(18th and 19th Centuries )

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.

Inscription

[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

Provenance
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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.

Exhibitions

1958-1959 Four Centuries of Miniature Painting from the Collections of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc. and A.J. Fink, Personally. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore.

Conservation

Date Description Narrative
1/8/1964 Treatment cleaned
6/8/1964 Treatment other
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USA (Place of Origin)

Measurements

H excluding frame: 2 3/8 x W: 3 1/8 in. (6.03 x 7.94 cm); Framed H: 4 1/8 x W: 5 1/4 in. (10.48 x 13.34 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, in memory of Abraham Jay Fink, 1963

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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38.431

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