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Sir Uvedale Price, Baronet (1747–1829)
Sir Thomas Lawrence (English, 1769–1830)
about 1799
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Robert Jordan from the collection of Eben D. Jordan
Accession Number24.212
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
A landowner and landscape designer, Uvedale Price is best remembered for his Essay on the Picturesque, As Compared With The Sublime and The Beautiful, published in 1794. For him, the Picturesque was located between the gently Beautiful and the more thrilling Sublime. In practical terms, this meant he sought a middle ground between wild, uncontrolled landscape and highly formal, symmetrical gardens. When possible, he preferred to retain old trees, rutted paths, and textured slopes.
ProvenanceAbout 1799, Uvedale Price (the sitter; b. 1764 – d. 1829), Herefordshire; by descent in the family to his nephew, Thomas Price (b. 1795 – d. 1892), London; May 6, 1893, posthumous Price sale, Christie’s, London, lot 55, to Wallis & Son, London. By 1894, Samuel Putnam Avery (dealer; b. 1822 – d. 1904), New York [see note 1]. By 1895, George H. Story (b. 1835 – d. 1922), New York [see note 2]. By 1903, Eben Dyer Jordan, Jr. (b. 1857 - d. 1916), Boston; to his son, Robert Jordan (b. 1884 - d. 1932), Boston; 1924, gift of Robert Jordan to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 17, 1924)
NOTES:
[1] Alfred Trumble, The Collector: “During Fourteen Days”, Vol. 5, No. 9, p. 134 (New York, 1894), notes that the painting was exhibited at Avery’s gallery in New York.
[2] Lent to the Cincinnati Art Museum by Story in 1895; see Cincinnati Museum Association Fifteenth Annual Report (1896), p. 33, Loan no. 562.
NOTES:
[1] Alfred Trumble, The Collector: “During Fourteen Days”, Vol. 5, No. 9, p. 134 (New York, 1894), notes that the painting was exhibited at Avery’s gallery in New York.
[2] Lent to the Cincinnati Art Museum by Story in 1895; see Cincinnati Museum Association Fifteenth Annual Report (1896), p. 33, Loan no. 562.