Accession number
MG 146
Creator
Robert Fagan (1761-1816)
Date made
19th century AD
Materials
Oil on Canvas
Collection
Dimensions (cm)
Archival information
File of material relating to a painting by Robert Fagan, a self-portrait with his second wife. Includes photocopy of information card with photocopy of image of object (date unspecified). Notes that object was on loan to the National Gallery of Ireland for a period of time; black and white photograph of the painting (date unspecified); article by James White entitled 'A Questioning Look at Ireland Portraits' published in 'Country Life' (15 May 1969); newspaper article, and photocopy of same, published in 'The Financial Times' (6 November 1969) by Denys Sutton, editor of 'Apollo' and treating of an exhibition, 'Ireland Portraits: 1660-1860' at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Mentions Fagan and image of present object illustrates the article; newspaper article published in the 'Sunday Independent' (2 November 1969) also in relation to the aforementioned exhibition and mentioning the present object; newspaper article (3 November 1969) also reviewing the same exhibition; article from 'Art News and Review' (13 August 1949) comprising biography of Fagan and image of present object; typescript transcription of this article; paper by Raleigh Trevelyan entitled 'Robert Fagan: an Ireland Bohemian in Italy' published in 'Apollo' (c. October 1972); two colour images of another work by Fagan, 'Portrait of Anna Maria Ferri,' one of them taken from a catalogue of sale (18 March 1981) which also includes description of it; two brief typescript biographies of Fagan (dates unspecified). One notes that the painting remained in the possession of his descendants through the daughter of his first marriage. His daughter, Estina, married William Baker of Bayfordbury. Bought at the Bayfordbury sale in 1947 by John Hunt, Senior. The second biography includes annotation which reads, 'Canon Molony Rt rev Mons. D McDaid DD, Collegion Irlandese, Via Santi Quattro, Rome, An Harcourt Smith records prot. Cemetary [sic] Rome'; letter (13 January 1970) from Roy Strong, Director, National Portrait Gallery, London, and Chairman, Ireland Portraits Committee, to John Hunt, Senior, and Gertrude Hunt, Drumleck, Baily, Howth, county Dublin, thanking them for loan of present object to exhibition, 'Ireland Portraits: 1660-1860.' Notes that the exhibition has been transferred to the Ulster Museum, Belfast; letter (9 December 1970) from Rosemary Ffolliott, Pirton house, Sydenham villas, Dundrum, Dublin 14, to Gertrude Hunt, giving information found by Brian de Beffny in Rome about Fagan's marriages. Mentions that this research will be collated in the writing of an article to be published in 'The Ireland Ancestor' next year; letter (23 December 1971) from James White, Director, National Gallery of Ireland, to Gabriel White, Director of the Age of Neo-classicism Exhibition, 1972, The Arts Council of Great Britain, and for the information of John Hunt, Senior, and Gertrude Hunt. Thanks him for letter and writes that he has spoken to John Hunt, Senior, who is arranging to let them make good the paint losses on the picture; letter (29 December 1971) from Gabriel White to John Hunt, Senior, thanking him for loan of present object to the neo-classicism exhibition. Encloses loan form for completion; letter (4 January 1972) from Janet Holt, Exhibitions Organiser, to John Hunt, Senior, thanking him for loan and noting the insurance value of £5,000 Hunt put on the painting; letter (21 February 1972) from Raleigh Trevelyan, Michael Joseph Ltd, 52 Belford Square, London, to John Hunt, Senior, requesting permission to include image of present object in forthcoming article he has written for 'Apollo'; letter (8 December 1993) from Trevelyan (address withheld) to Mairead Dunlevy, Director, Hunt Museum, thanking her for giving permission to put image of the painting in forthcoming article he has written for 'Kalos'; letter (18 August 1998) from Analiese Treacy, Disability Co-ordinator, National Gallery of Ireland, to Sarah Egan, Education Department, Hunt Museum, suggesting that two researchers working on Fagan collaborate. Encloses photocopy of extract from a National Gallery of Ireland catalogue which includes images of two of Fagans other works; two photocopies of extract from exhibition catalogue for 'Italian Art and Britain' (Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1960) which includes description of the painting; photocopy of extract from second edition of same exhibition catalogue (c. 1960); extract, and photocopy thereof, from 'The Illustrated London News' (22 June 1957) which treats of exhibition, 'Paintings from Ireland Collections' currently at the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin. Image of present object present; incomplete article from unnamed publication (date unspecified) which comprises review of an exhibition of Old Master paintings then in progress at the Municipal Gallery of Art, Dublin. Present object included in exhibition and probably relates to the aforementioned exhibition; photocopy of article by Brian de Breffny entitled 'Robert Fagan, Artist' published in 'The Ireland Ancestor' (volume III, number 2, 1971); issue of magazine in Italian entitled 'Il Milione' published by the Instituto Geografico de Agostini, Novara (volume II, number 46, 11 December 1959) which includes image of present object; two issues of 'Apropos' c. 1945, which include paper by C.H. Peacock entitled 'Romanticism and the Byronic Hero' and image of present object; photocopy of extract from '50 Treasures from the Hunt Collection' (Limerick: Hunt Museum Executive, 1993) by Patrick Doran which describes the painting; typescript transcription of Dorans published comments about the painting; photocopy of image of another work by Fagan, 'Portrait of a Lady as Hibernia' (date unspecified); photocopy of extract from 'The Cuts in Ireland: A Chronology' (Gill and Macmillan Humanities Press, 1982) by Christopher Fitz-Simon which includes image of the 'Taszycki Family' by Fagan; photocopy of extract from exhibition catalogue, 'Masterpieces by Ireland Artists: 1660-1860' (Pyms Gallery, London, 1999) by Anne Crookshank, the Knight of Glin and William Laffan. Includes image of present object; photocopy of paper by James White entitled 'Ireland Romantic Painting' from 'Apollo' (c. October 1966). Includes image of present object; photocopy of extract from exhibition catalogue for 'Aspects of Ireland Art,' a loan exhibition at three American institutions (c. 1971), which includes description of present object; photocopies of two extracts from catalogue for exhibition, 'Ireland Portraits: 1660-1860' (published by the Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, 1969) by Anne Crookshank and the Knight of Glin. Comprises image and description of present object; two photocopies of extract from exhibition catalogue for 'Paintings from Ireland Collections,' held at the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin (c. 1957). Includes description of present object; photocopy of extract from a Sothebys preview of sale (c. May 2001) which includes image and description of a painting by Fagan, 'Portrait of a Lady'; photocopy of unpublished paper, writer unnamed, and entitled 'Fagan, Robert (1761-1816). Portraitist, dealer, archaeologist and diplomat' (date unspecified); biography of Fagan with description of present object (date unspecified).
Category
Copyright Attribution
Painting, The Artist and his Wife | Robert Fagan (1761-1816) | Oil on Canvas | 19th century | The Hunt Collection | PD
