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Title
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Boy with a cherry
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Artist
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Sir Henry Raeburn
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Type
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Oil on canvas
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Size (HxW, mm)
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765 x 635
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Lent By
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Mrs. David Stellar
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Catalog Number
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98
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Catalog Page
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15
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Catalog Description
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N/A
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Curators Notes
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Provenance: By descent in the artist’s family; their sale, Christie’s, London, 7 May 1877, lot 30 (240 gns. to Agnews). Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 17 March 1888, lot 80 (310 gns. to Vokins). Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, 1st Bt. (1819-1900); (†) Christie’s, London, 5 July 1902, lot 73, where unsold. Major Oswald Ames, London, by 1906. Anonymous sale [Sold by Order of Executors]; Christie’s, London, 3 July 1908, lot 138 (571 gns. to Sulley). Thatcher M. Adams (1837-1919), New York; (†) Hotel Plaza, New York, 15 January 1920 (=2nd day), lot 146, when acquired for $20,000 by, Bernon S. Prentice (1882-1948), New York; his sale (†), Parke-Bernet, New York, 17-19 April 1952, lot 676. Anonymous sale; DejaVu Estate Sales & Auctions, Palm Beach, 15 April 2024, lot 663, when acquired by the present owner.
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Alt-Text
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A classical oil painting of a young child with blonde hair in a white cloth, sitting and smiling, holding a strawberry up in one hand and a basket of strawberries in the other. The painting has an ornate golden frame.
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status
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R.A.
