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Miss Juliana Willoughby

1781-1783

ArtistGeorge Romney

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Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: overall: 92.1 x 71.5 cm (36 1/4 x 28 1/8 in.)
Classification: Painting
Institution: National Gallery of Art
Object number: 1937.1.104
Credit: Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Market Intelligence

Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.

Public evidence

Last known price $50,000 Dealer sale · Feb 15, 1907

Matched price history · normalized USD · Foundry provisional

$50K1907

Last known price$50,0001 matched observed sale

Observed median$50,000

Observed sales1

Artist index23.3

1907-02-15Dealer sale$50,000.00

Artist index contextLatest public build 23.3 · base 100 · n=1.Artist-level context is not an artwork valuation.

Comparable Sales

Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.

Evidence ranked

Artwork	Sale date	House	Realized USD	Match
Sir William Hamilton 1783 · oil on canvas	1918-04-01	—	$16,000.00	87%
Miss Frances Mary Harford 1780 · Oil on canvas	1903-02-28	—	$30,000.00	86%
Lady Hamilton as 'Nature' 1782 · Oil on canvas	1904-11-28	—	$110,000.00	86%
Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell 1790 · oil on canvas	1924-03-26	—	$7,000.00	76%
Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell 1790 · oil on canvas	1921-01-01	—	$4,550.00	76%
Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell 1790 · oil on canvas	1920-01-15	—	$4,550.00	76%

Similarity score is descriptive evidence ranking, not a valuation model. Every row comes from the public-rights market boundary.

Provenance

Public

Painted for the sitter's father, Sir Christopher Willoughby, Bt. [1748-1808], Baldon House, Oxfordshire

Painted for the sitter's father, Sir Christopher Willoughby, Bt. [1748-1808], Baldon House, Oxfordsh...

by descent to Sir John Willoughby, 5th Bt.,[1] Fulmer Hall, Slough, Buckinghamshire

by descent to Sir John Willoughby, 5th Bt.,[1] Fulmer Hall, Slough, Buckinghamshire

sold 1906 to (M. Knoedler & Co., London and New York)

sold 1906 to (M. Knoedler & Co., London and New York)

purchased February 1907 by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.

purchased February 1907 by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.

deeded 28 December 1934 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh

deeded 28 December 1934 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh

gift 1937 to NGA.

gift 1937 to NGA.

[1] The 2nd through 4th Baronets Willoughby added to the former owner table in the NGA collection database are per The Getty Provenance Index, which lists these baronets each with the symbol (?), indicating some doubt as to the painting's direct passage t

[1] The 2nd through 4th Baronets Willoughby added to the former owner table in the NGA collection da...

Source provenance text

Painted for the sitter's father, Sir Christopher Willoughby, Bt. [1748-1808], Baldon House, Oxfordshire; by descent to Sir John Willoughby, 5th Bt.,[1] Fulmer Hall, Slough, Buckinghamshire; sold 1906 to (M. Knoedler & Co., London and New York); purchased February 1907 by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; deeded 28 December 1934 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA. [1] The 2nd through 4th Baronets Willoughby added to the former owner table in the NGA collection database are per The Getty Provenance Index, which lists these baronets each with the symbol (?), indicating some doubt as to the painting's direct passage through these three succeeding brothers down to the 5th Bt.

Ngaconfidence 100%

Exhibitions

Public

No rights-cleared exhibition history is published.

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Catalog neighbours

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Portrait of a Woman, Said to Be Emily Bertie Pott (died 1782)

George Romney · 1781

Lady Hamilton as 'Nature'

George Romney · 1782

$110,000Last sale
1904

Miss Frances Mary Harford

George Romney · 1780

$30,000Last sale
1903

Sir William Hamilton

George Romney · 1783

$16,000Last sale
1918

Lady Lemon (1747–1823)

George Romney · 1783

Sourced Overview Evidence

Miss Juliana Willoughby is a work by George Romney. dated 1781-1783. made in oil on canvas. with recorded dimensions overall: 92.1 x 71.5 cm (36 1/4 x 28 1/8 in.). The work is recorded by National Gallery of Art under accession 1937.1.104.

Ngaconfidence 100%

Evidence state

1 observed sales · 6 comparable sales · 7 structured provenance events · 0 structured exhibitions.

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