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Title: Nearly three hundred valuable paintings of the American and foreign schools
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: Estate of Col. Henry O. Seixas Edward G. O'Reilly Frederic B. Thomason E.A. Gurnee Justus Morris, Jr Arthur M. Nowak Homer Lee Graham F. Blandy Irving T. Bush William H. Hulick Leon Mandel Mrs. Harold Thorne Messrs Nowak & Voron
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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died November 13, 1726. Whole length, about twenty-five to thirty, life size, standingnear the balcony, in state robes, blue ermine lined gown andmantle and white satin gold-embroidered petticoat, richlystudded with pearls and precious stones, fair hair with pearland other ornaments; left hand holding robes, right hand onorb which, with crown, rests on blue-covered table; red curtainbackground. Exhibited: Guelph Exhibition, Nezc Gallery, 1891, Xo. 11.Collection: Duke of Fife, Duff House, Banffshire, June 7, 1907. No. 3152 in the old catalogue of the Fife pictures. Thiswas No. 17 in the Duke of Fife sale and was Included among theportraits by unknown artists. It is a very fine jjortrait of abeautiful woman, more in the style of a French artist than Knellerand probably represents some other Queen Sojjhia than the wifeof George I, to whose other known portraits it bears no resem-blance. From the Blakeslee Galleries S(de, Xen. York, 1915, Catalogue Xo. 225.Property of a Private Collector.
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Sir Josliua Reynolds, P.R.A. English, 1T23—1792 162—EARL GOWER (MARQUIS OF STAFFORD) Canvas: Height, 88 inches; width, 57 inches Son of John 1st Earl Gowcr; born August 4, 1721 ; M.P. forWestminster 17-17-1764; Lord Privy Seal, Lord Chamberlainand Lord President of the Council; succeeded as second EarlGower in 1754; created INlarquis of Stafford, March 1, 1786;died October 26, 1803. Whole-length, middle-aged, standing on a balcony, in Peersrobes with chain and pendant of St. George; coronet in righthand, left holding ribbon of cloak; wig; pillar and red curtainto left. Earl Goxcer sat to Reynolds in 1760-1. From the Blakcslee Galleries Sale, New York, 1915, Catalogue Xo. 223. Property of a Private Collector.

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