Isabella Wolff

Provenance

Commissioned by the sitter’s sister, Mrs. Walter (Clarissa) Hill, The Rocklands, near Goodrich, Herefordshire, 1802 or 1803 [see New York 1879]; possibly given to her by the artist, 1815 [information based on a label once on the back of the frame: “Portrait of Mrs. Wolff painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and respectfully presented to her sister Mrs. Hill 1815 T L;” the label was transcribed by Walter Guy Hill, owner of the portrait, in a manuscript account of the history of the work, dated February 29, 1904, copy in curatorial file]; by descent to her son, the Rev. Walter Henry Hill (died 1867); on loan to his sister, Mrs. Robert (Isabella) Coke (died 1870), South Lodge, Newland, Gloucestershire, 1846-70; by descent to the Rev. Hill’s son, Walter Guy Hill (died 1906), Monmouth [see manuscript citied above and Major Peter Hill’s letter, dated January 27, 1982, copy in curatorial file]; probably sold between 1904 and 1906 [the painting was not mentioned in Walter Guy Hill’s will]. Mrs. W. W. Kimball (died 1921), Chicago by 1920; on loan to the Art Institute in 1920-21; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1922.

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