James Milliken Jr.

c. 1761

Jean-Étienne Liotard
Swiss, 1702–1789

Status: On View, Gallery 216
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Etienne Liotard
Title: James Milliken Jr.
Place: Switzerland (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1760–1763
Medium: Pastel on parchment
Dimensions: 68.8 × 58.2 cm (27 1/8 × 22 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Regenstein Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2023.2838
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“The Blue Man,” Studio International (Oct. 25, 2004) (ill.).
Marcel Roethlisberger and Rénee Loche, Liotard: Catalogue, Sources et Correspondance (Doornspijk: Davaco, 2008), vol 1: pp. 565–66, no. 425, fig. 618.
Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800 (online edition), Liotard, Part IV, p. 7, no. J.49.2111 (ill.).

The sitter’s sister, Mrs. Nathaniel Spens (née Milliken; 1741–1774); by descent within the Spens family to Sir Will Spens (1882–1962), Cambridge; by descent (offered for sale , Duke & Sons, Dorchester, Nov. 4, 2004, lot 270, unsold); sold to a private collection, United Kingdom, 2006; sold through Lowell Libson and Jonny Yarker, London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.

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