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Portrait of Two Women and a Man


Medium/Technique Oil on panel transferred to canvas
Dimensions 76.5 x 72.4 cm (30 1/8 x 28 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Robert Dawson Evans Collection
Accession Number17.3267
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings

ProvenanceGeorge Hunter Donaldson (b. 1845 - d. 1925), London and Hove, England [see note 1]. 1912, purchased in Europe by Ehrich Galleries, New York [see note 2]; 1913, sold by Ehrich to T.J. Blakeslee Galleries, New York; April 10, 1913, sold by Blakeslee Galleries to Maria Antoinette Hunt (Mrs. Robert Dawson) Evans (b. 1845 - d. 1917), Boston [see note 2]; 1917, bequest of Mrs. Robert Dawson Evans to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 1, 1917)

NOTES:
[1] According to Blakeslee Galleries at the time of sale to Mrs. Evans. Donaldson was a collector and dealer.

[2] Included in the Exhibition of Old Masters from the Collection of the Ehrich Galleries (Doll and Richards, Boston, January 10 - 22, 1913), cat. no. 4, as "The Meyer Family" by Barthel Bruyn, and said to have been acquired in Europe the previous summer. Blakelsee stated that the painting was "purchased by me from Ehrich Gallery."