[Portrait of Mary Anne Clarke] [art original] / Adam Buck

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Title: [Portrait of Mary Anne Clarke] [art original] / Adam Buck
Creator: Buck, Adam, 1759-1833, artist
Published / Created: 1804.
Publication Place: London
Abstract: Full-length portrait of a woman, likely to be Mary Anne Clarke, wearing a white neoclassical dress and standing on a balcony with a curtain drapped from the left corner
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Signed and dated by the artist in lower left: Adam Buck, London 1804.
Identity of the sitter based on the known partronage of Adam Buck by both Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, and his mistress Mary Anne Clarke. In addition, there exist other examples of similar portraits of Clarke by Buck.
Removed from frame, which is stored separately in LSF Bin 14.
Provenance: Purchased from Jarndyce, November 2022.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 38.5 x 28.9 cm, mounted to 44 x 34 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: No linguistic content