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Mrs. George Hill

c. 1790/1800

ArtistSir Henry Raeburn

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Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: overall: 96.9 x 76.6 cm (38 1/8 x 30 3/16 in.) framed: 120.3 x 100.3 x 8.9 cm (47 3/8 x 39 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)
Classification: Painting
Institution: National Gallery of Art
Object number: 1970.17.130
Credit: Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

Market Intelligence

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

Public evidence

Last known price $16,000 Dealer sale · Dec 12, 1900

Matched price history · normalized USD · Foundry provisional

$16K1900

Last known price$16,0001 matched observed sale

Observed median$16,000

Observed sales1

Artist index—

1900-12-12Dealer sale$16,000.00

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Comparable Sales

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

Evidence ranked

Artwork	Sale date	House	Realized USD	Match
John Tait and His Grandson 1793 · oil on canvas	1919-02-01	—	$125,000.00	88%
Colonel Francis James Scott 1796 · oil on canvas	1922-05-09	—	$40,000.00	87%
Miss Eleanor Urquhart 1793 · oil on canvas	1920-10-01	—	$58,500.00	86%

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

Provenance

Public

Painted for the Reverend George Hill [1750-1819], St. Andrews, Scotland

Painted for the Reverend George Hill [1750-1819], St. Andrews, Scotland

by descent to John Sheriff Hill [d. 1900], Dingwall, Inverness

by descent to John Sheriff Hill [d. 1900], Dingwall, Inverness

(sale, Fraser, Inverness, 1900)

(sale, Fraser, Inverness, 1900)

bought by (Wallis & Son, London)

bought by (Wallis & Son, London)

(M. Knoedler & Co., New York), by 1911

(M. Knoedler & Co., New York), by 1911

[1] purchased by 1925[2] by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.

[1] purchased by 1925[2] by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.

gift by 1937 to his daughter, Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York

gift by 1937 to his daughter, Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York

Source provenance text

Painted for the Reverend George Hill [1750-1819], St. Andrews, Scotland; by descent to John Sheriff Hill [d. 1900], Dingwall, Inverness; (sale, Fraser, Inverness, 1900); bought by (Wallis & Son, London); (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), by 1911;[1] purchased by 1925[2] by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; gift by 1937 to his daughter, Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York; bequest 1970 to NGA. [1] James Greig, _Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A.: His Life and Works_, London, 1911: 48. [2] Mellon owned the painting by the time he lent it to the exhibition _Paintings by Old Masters from Pittsburgh Collections_, shown at the Carnegie Institute in 1925.

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Exhibitions

Public

No rights-cleared exhibition history is published.

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Catalog neighbours

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Mrs. Richard Alexander Oswald (Louisa Johnston, ?born about 1760, died 1797)

Sir Henry Raeburn · 1789

Miss Eleanor Urquhart

Sir Henry Raeburn · 1793

$58,500Last sale
1920

John Tait and His Grandson

Sir Henry Raeburn · 1793

$125,000Last sale
1919

William Forsyth (1749–1814)

Sir Henry Raeburn · 1795

Colonel Francis James Scott

Sir Henry Raeburn · 1796

$40,000Last sale
1922

Sourced Overview Evidence

Mrs. George Hill is a work by Sir Henry Raeburn. dated c. 1790/1800. made in oil on canvas. with recorded dimensions overall: 96.9 x 76.6 cm (38 1/8 x 30 3/16 in.) framed: 120.3 x 100.3 x 8.9 cm (47 3/8 x 39 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.). The work is recorded by National Gallery of Art under accession 1970.17.130.

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Evidence state

1 observed sales · 3 comparable sales · 10 structured provenance events · 0 structured exhibitions.

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