About This Artwork

Joseph Highmore
British, 1692-1780

Mrs. Freeman Flower, 1747

Oil on canvas
36 x 28 in. (91.5 x 71.1 cm)
Inscribed lower left: Jos. Highmore / pinx: 1747
Bequest of John and Dorothy Estabrook, 1987.262.3

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

London, Thomas Agnew and Sons, "Three Centuries of British Paintings," 1978, no. 48.

Publication History

Warren Mild, Joseph Highmore of Holborn Row (London, 1990), between pp. 262 and 263 (ill.).

Malcolm Warner in 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. 242–45 (ill.).

Ownership History

Freeman Flower (died 1794) from 1747; by descent to his daughter, Lydia, Mrs. Samuel Shore; bequeathed by her to her second cousin Dr. Whittaker, "Whittaker of Belmount" [according to label on back of stretcher]. Sold Pearson's, Winchester, December 13 , 1977, no. 570 (as one of a pair with 1987.262.4) to Thomas Agnew and Sons, London [letter from Gabriel Naughton, Agnew’s, 19 March 1993, in curatorial file]; sold by Agnew’s, March 21, 1979, to John N. Estabrook, Chicago [letter from Gabriel Naughton cited above]; bequeathed by John and Dorothy Estabrook to the Art Institute, 1987.