FreeA Portrait of Mary Tisdal Reading
Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss, 1741–1807)
Title
A Portrait of Mary Tisdal Reading
Artist
Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss, 1741–1807)
Date
c. 1771–72
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
24 3/4 × 29 3/4 in. (62.9 × 75.6 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds from The Jack Drew Art Endowment Fund for 18th- and 19th-Century Art
Object Number
2016.9
On View
On view
Commissioned from the artist by the Honorable Philip Tisdal (1703–1777) or his wife, Mary Tisdal (née Singleton), Dublin, c. 1771;
By descent to their daughter, Elizabeth Morgan (née Tisdal), Cottles Town and Cork Abbey, Ireland;
By descent to her daughter, Catherine Tighe (née Morgan, b. 1761), Mitchelstown, Ireland;
By descent in the Tighe family, Ashgrove, Ellesmere, Shropshire, until possibly 1924 [1].
With Frost & Reed, London, stock book no. 6162, until 1985 [2];
Purchased from Frost & Reed by a private collector, Ohio;
Purchased from the sale of the private collection, Fusco Auctions, Willoughby, Ohio, May 31, 2014, lot 212, by Rafael Valls Old Master Paintings, 2014– March 29, 2016;
Purchased from Rafael Valls Old Master Paintings, London by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha Nebraska, 2016.
[1] According to a 1924 account, the Tisdal portraits passed to the descendants of Philip Tisdal, and before 1924, belonged to Mr. Tighe at Ashgrove, Ellesmere, Shropshire. See Victoria Manners and G. C. Williamson, Angelica Kauffman, R. A.: Her Life and Works (New York, 1924), 39.
[2] According to a handwritten label on the reverse.