FRANCESCO ALBANI
The Madonna
(Bologna 1578 – 1660)
Oil on copper, oval - 12 ½ x 9 ¼ inches (31.7 x 24 cm)
PROVENANCE -
Michael Mucklow Zachary (1773-1837); his posthumous sale, Christie's, London, 31 March 1838 (=2nd day), lot 37 (73 gns. to Seguier on behalf of the following).
Maria Louisa Whyte, née Simpson (1773-1855), Barrow Hill, Rocester, Staffordshire. and by inheritance there to her niece
Her niece Louisa Jane Finch Dawson, née Simpson (d.1865).
Her son Captain Arthur Finch Dawson (1836-1928), Barrow Hill, Rocester; his posthumous sale, Christie's, London, 14 December 1928, lot 110 (23 gns. to Dawson).
Gillian D. Rose, Wellington, Somerset.
EXHIBITED -
London, The British Institution, May 1837, no. 135.