Lot 187: Francis Hayman (Exeter 1708-1776 London)

Francis Hayman (Exeter 1708-1776 London)
A dairy maid with a black boy
oil on canvas
71 x 88.2cm (27 15/16 x 34 3/4in).

Footnotes

• Provenance
  The Collection of Marquess and Marchioness Amodio, Paris, before 1950
  Sale, Sotheby's, London, 15 June 2000, lot 93 (Property of a Nobleman sold to benefit the International Red Cross in their relief work in Timor)
  
  Exhibited
  Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts, Four Centuries of European Painting, 6 October 1951- 13 January 1952 (as by Phillippe Mercier, as Amodio Loan)
  
  Literature
  Four Centuries of European Painting, Dallas, 1951, cat. no. 53 (as Philippe Mercier, as Amodio Loan)
  
  According to a label on the reverse, the subject of the present painting records an occasion that took place at the Duke of Bridgewater's estate.