About This Artwork

British

Double Portrait: Two Women, 1845/48

Oil on canvas
35 7/8 x 25 7/8 in. (91.2 x 65.8 cm)
Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Collection, 1937.460

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

London, Adams Gallery, Paintings by William Etty, May-June 1936, cat. 9 (ill.), as William Etty.

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, A Survey of British Painting, May 10-June 12, 1938, cat. 71, as William Etty.

Milwaukee Institute of Art, Three Centuries of British Painting, October 10-December 10, 1946, no cat. (see Milwaukee Art Institute, Gallery Notes 19, 2 (November 1946), pp. 1–2.

Publication History

Daniel Catton Rich, Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings (Chicago, 1938), p. 63, cat. 58.

Art Instititute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 156.

Ownership History

Adams Gallery, London, by 1936 [according to 1936 exh. cat.]. E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, 1936; sold to Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester in 1936 [according to Charles H. Worcester’s letter to Robert Harshe dated October 15, 1936, in curatorial file]; on loan at the Art Institute in 1936; given to the Art Institute, 1937.