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Lady Anne Miller of Glenlee,
ca. 1788-89
Sir Henry Raeburn, British, 1756–1823
y1991-66
In 1768, Anne Lockhart became the second wife of Sir Thomas Miller, a lawyer, Member of Parliament, rector of Glasgow University, and Justice Clerk before becoming Lord President of the College of Justice in 1788—and before he was raised to the peerage, the British nobility, as a baron. This portrait may have been commissioned on that occasion, but there is no pendant portrait of Sir Thomas, perhaps because he died in 1789. Raeburn excelled in conveying the rational and pragmatic character of his contemporaries who promoted the values of the Scottish Enlightenment, the flowering of humanistic and scientific inquiry in the intellectual circles of Scotland. Sir Thomas was a founding member of an organization associated with this movement—the interdisciplinary Royal Society of Edinburgh, founded for the "advancement of learning and useful knowledge"—and chaired its first meeting in 1783.
Information
Title
Lady Anne Miller of Glenlee
Dates
ca. 1788-89
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
77.3 x 64.9 cm (30 7/16 x 25 9/16 in.)
frame: 100.9 x 88.4 x 10.4 cm (39 3/4 x 34 13/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Derek B. Lidow, Class of 1973
Object Number
y1991-66
Place Made
Europe, England
Culture
Type
A.W. Miller, Esq; sold by Trustees of his estate, Steward Sale, Christie’s, London, July 28-29, 1927, no. 10; Leggatt, London, 1928; Sir A. Chester Beatty; sold by Executors of his Estate, Sotheby’s, London, June 26, 1968, no. 39; Newhouse Galleries; Derek B. Lidow, Class of 1973, by 1972; 1991 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.
- Catalogue of the works of Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A., (Edinburgh: National Galleries, 1876).
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Sir Walter Armstrong, Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson and Sir J.L. Caw, Sir Henry Raeburn, (London, W. Heinemann; New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1901).
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James Grieg, Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A.; his life and works, with a catalogue of his pictures, (London: "The Connoisseur", 1911).
, p. 14 (illus.); p. 53 - "Notable works of art now on the market: supplement", Burlington magazine 51, no. 297 (Dec., 1927): 40 unnumbered pages., pl. 15
- Catalogue of views of Salisbury by J.M.W. Turner, R.A. : the property of H. Arthur Steward, Esq., early British portraits, the property of A. Wellesley Miller, Esq., modern pictures and drawings, the property of Major G.C. Robertson ..., (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1927)., no. 10
- Raeburn: bi-centenary exhibition, 16 July to 16 September, 1956., (Edinburgh, Scotland: National Gallery of Scotland, 1956).
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1991," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 51, no. 1 (1992): p. 22-78., p. 25
