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Portrait of a Man with Books
Lost Art-ID
616189
Artist / Creator
Peters, Matthew William
Birth
1741 / 1742, Freshwater (Isle of Wight)
Death
1814.03.20, Brasted (Kent)
Title
Portrait of a Man with Books
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil ; Canvas / painted
Description
Possibly life-size
Provenance
Baron Mor Lipot Herzog, Budapest, 1914; Baroness Mor Lipot Herzog, Budapest, 1934 by descent; Herzog Andras, Erzsebet, Istvan, 1940, by descent; Lost during WWII - a confiscation as a result of Nazi persecution is suspected; whereabouts unknown
Literature / Source
Catalogue of the British Hungarian Exhibition. Az angol-magyar kiállítás katalógusa. May, June, July, 1926. Hungarian Fine Art Society. Budapest, Exposition of Art, Városliget. Room X. No. 71.; Lázár, Béla, Angol mesterek magyar gyűjteményekben [British Masters in Hungarian Collections] In: Magyar Művészet II 1926 [Hungarian Art] 205, ill: 195.; Mravik, László, The "Sacco Di Budapest" and Depredation of Hungary, 1938-1949: Works of Art Missing from Hungary as a Result of the Second World War : Looted, Smuggled, Captured, Lost and Destroyed Art Works, Books and Archival Documents : Preliminary and Provisional Catalog, 1998, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest. No. 19885, p. 323.
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