James Green, Portrait of the first three Presidents of the Royal Academy
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GREEN, James (1771-1834).
Portrait of the first three Presidents of the Royal Academy: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Benjamin West & Sir Thomas Lawrence.
Pencil, watercolor and bodycolor on paper.
Signed lower right: J. Green.
c. 1830-1834.
14 3/8" x 19" sheet, 25" x 29" framed.
Comparable: Christie's NY, Jan 26, 2011- $17,500
Provenance: With Vose Galleries, Boston, 1967 (according to an inscription on the verso of a photograph of this drawing at the Frick Art Reference Library, New York).
Green entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1791 and was soon noticed by Sir Joshua Reynolds who alloweed him to copy many of his pictures. While the present drawing seems to have been done after the death of all three R.A. Presidents, Green did famously paint West's portrait, a full-length oil on canvas, now cut down and in the Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York. Lawrence was inspired by Green's portrait for his own pianted portraits of West which are now in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT and the Delaware Art Center. An old label on the back of the frame reads "No. 2 / Portraits of Sir Joshua Reynolds / Benjamin West Esq. and / Sir Thomas Lawrence the / deceased Presidents of the Royal Academy / James green / 8 South Crescent / Bedford Square." If written by Green it would place the execution of this watercolor after Lawrence's death in 1830 and before Green's in 1834.
Portrait of the first three Presidents of the Royal Academy: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Benjamin West & Sir Thomas Lawrence.
Pencil, watercolor and bodycolor on paper.
Signed lower right: J. Green.
c. 1830-1834.
14 3/8" x 19" sheet, 25" x 29" framed.
Comparable: Christie's NY, Jan 26, 2011- $17,500
Provenance: With Vose Galleries, Boston, 1967 (according to an inscription on the verso of a photograph of this drawing at the Frick Art Reference Library, New York).
Green entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1791 and was soon noticed by Sir Joshua Reynolds who alloweed him to copy many of his pictures. While the present drawing seems to have been done after the death of all three R.A. Presidents, Green did famously paint West's portrait, a full-length oil on canvas, now cut down and in the Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York. Lawrence was inspired by Green's portrait for his own pianted portraits of West which are now in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT and the Delaware Art Center. An old label on the back of the frame reads "No. 2 / Portraits of Sir Joshua Reynolds / Benjamin West Esq. and / Sir Thomas Lawrence the / deceased Presidents of the Royal Academy / James green / 8 South Crescent / Bedford Square." If written by Green it would place the execution of this watercolor after Lawrence's death in 1830 and before Green's in 1834.
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