Mrs. Freeman Flower

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1747

Joseph Highmore
British, 1692-1780

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Joseph Highmore
Title: Mrs. Freeman Flower
Place: England (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1747
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left: Jos. Highmore / pinx: 1747
Dimensions: 91.5 × 71.1 cm (36 × 28 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of John and Dorothy Estabrook
Reference Number: 1987.262.3
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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.).

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

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.

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