About This Artwork
Thomas Hudson
British, 1701-1779
John Newtonc. 1757/60
Oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm)
Gift of Arthur B. Logan, 1985.263
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Aileen Ribeiro, The Dress Worn at Masquerades in England, 1730 to 1790, and Its Relation to Fancy Dress in Portraiture, New York and London, 1984, pp. 138-9, 153, 155, 352-3, 356, and intro. to ch. 3, pl. 6.
Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection, Chicago, 1996, pp. 248-51 (ill.).
Ownership History
Thomas John Henry Vincent Lane, King's Bromley Manor, Litchfield; sold Sotheby's, London, 8 December 1926, no. 118 as John Newton and his Wife Elizabeth by Cotes to De Casseres for £56 [annotated catalogue in Ryerson Library]. Leggatt Brothers, London, by 1927 at which time the sitter’s wife was excised and portions of the portrait overpainted [according at note by Ellis Waterhouse on the reverse of a photo in the Waterhouse archive, Paul Mellon Centre, London]; sold by Leggatt to Howard Young, 1927 [according to Waterhouse inscription cited above]. Anderson Galleries, New York [according to undated newspaper clipping]. Wally Findlay Galleries, Chicago [acc. to note from Arthur B. Logan dated 7 December 1989 in curatorial files]; sold to Arthur B. Logan, Chicago, 8 March 1955; given to the Art Institute, 1985.

