Girl with a Mop-Cap

Item

Creator

John Hoppner (1758-1810)

Title

Girl with a Mop-Cap

Description

Oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (c. 76.2 x 63.5 cm.)

Provenance

Gladston Bennett, Esq. [Charles Sedelmeyer (1837-1925), Paris, by 1895, sold October 1896 to]; [M. Knoedler & Co., New York, sold January 1899 to]; [V.G. Fischer Art Galleries, Washington, D.C.]. Mrs. Mary Bryant Pratt Brandegee (1871-1956), Faulkner Farm, Brookline, MA, to February 1943, sent on consignment to; [Newhouse Galleries, New York, sold February 1943 to]; Arthur William Sidney Herrington (1891-1970) and Nell C. Herrington (1891-1966), Indianapolis, Indiana, by inheritance to their son; Arthur Clarke Herrington (1931-2018), Maryland, bequest 2018 to; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. [1]

[1] Refer to the curatorial/object file.

Exhibitions

1964 – Champaign, IL, Krannert Art Museum, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.S. Herrington of Indianapolis, Indiana, European and American Paintings and Graphic Art; European, American, and Oriental Decorative Arts, 27 September – 25 October 1964, no.37, illus.

1968 – Indianapolis, IN, Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, The Nell Clarke Herrington Memorial Exhibition, 7-28 April 1968, Bulletin/Catalogue, Spring 1968, pp. 16-7, illus.

1968 – Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Civic and Cultural Center, Selections from the Herrington Collection, Inaugural Exhibition of the Arts Museum, 3-19 May 1968, no. 39, illus.

References

Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris. Illustrated Catalogue of the Second Hundred of Paintings by Old Masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French and English Schools belonging to the Sedelmeyer Gallery. Paris: 1895, pp. 98-9, no. 83, illus.

McKay, William, and W. Roberts. John Hoppner, R.A. London: P.&. D. Colnaghi, Co. and George Bell & Sons, 1909, p. 293.

The Masterpieces of Hoppner (1758-1810). Gowan’s Art Books, No. 48. London: Gowans & Gray, Ltd., 1926, p. 63, illus.

The Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London: The Witt Library Photographic Collection.
Fiche No. 1847: British School. Boxes 1186-7. Hopper, J. Girl with a Mop Cap. M. Knoedler & Co.

Frick Photo Archive, Frick Art Reference Library, New York. Hoppner, Mob-Cap.

Status

Under research