Duchess

1831

Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	33 7/8 x 42 3/8 in. (86 x 107.7 cm) Frame: 39 1/2 x 48 x 2 in. (100.3 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm)
Object Number	1955.924
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

John E. Ferneley, Duchess, 1831, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.924

Select Bibliography

Conforti, Michael, et al. The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven: distributed by Yale University Press, 2006. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.. Exhibit Seventeen: Sporting Paintings.. August 1961.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.. Never Say Die. May 17-Sept. 14, 1980. Essay by David S. Brooke for brochure, "Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth." Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Precht, Katherine. The Paintings of the English School at the Clark Art Institute. Honors thesis, Williams College, 1981. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Brooke, David S., Rafael Fernandez, and Beth Carver Wees. Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.

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Provenance

The artist, possibly sold to H. H. H. Hungerford, 1831, as Portrait of Himself on Horseback;¹ Possibly H. H. H. Hungerford, Northamptonshire; [Knoedler, London, sold to Clark 11 July 1932, as H. H. Hungerford on "Duchess’"]; Robert Sterling Clark (1932–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955. 1. See Ferneley’s account book from 1831, reproduced in Major Guy Paget, The Melton Mowbray of John Ferneley, 1931, pp. 139–40, nos. 328–339. Of all the paintings listed from 1831, the painting sold to H. H. H. Hungerford titled Portrait of Himself on Horseback (no. 34) seems the most likely to be the Clark picture due to both its description and price.