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The author of an important treatise, <i>An Essay on the Theory of Painting </i>(1715), Richardson portrayed himself against a sober background with no sign of his profession as an artist and theorist.\n</p>","remarks":"EUR1_02-05_WLA-Day 1 Cataloguing "},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Probably Jonathan Richardson the Younger (1694-1771); probably his posthumous sale, Langford and Son, London, February 18, 1772, lot 45 (‘Richardson Senior, His own portrait’); James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1812- 60), before 1861; Lady Susan Georgiana Broun Bourke (1837-98), by whom brought to Colstoun House, Haddington (according to an old handwritten label on the reverse); by descent in the Broun family at Colstoun House; Sotheby’s, London, January 19, 2017, lot 48;&nbsp;Lowell Libson &amp; Jonny Yarker, London;&nbsp;purchase by the Princeton University Art Museum.<br>","remarks":"As supplied by the dealer and listed in Sotheby’s catalogue"}],"media":[{"id":215798,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU2018_49760","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[],"exhibitions":[],"geography":[{"displaygeography":"Place made: England, London","code":"Place made","continent":null,"subcontinent":null,"country":"England","region":null,"state":null,"city":"London","county":null,"subregion":null,"locale":null,"locus":null,"river":null,"excavation":null,"geoname":"http://www.geonames.org/2643743/london.html","location":{"lat":"","lon":""}}],"terms":[{"id":2055785,"term":"self-portraits","aatid":300124534,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2052977,"term":"paintings","aatid":300033618,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2088270,"term":"men","aatid":300025928,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2055663,"term":"busts","aatid":300047457,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2031586,"term":"British","aatid":300111159,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2053145,"term":"oil paintings","aatid":300033799,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2171344,"term":"canvas","aatid":null,"termtype":"Materials"},{"id":2167780,"term":"oil paint","aatid":300015050,"termtype":"Materials"}],"classifications":[{"id":2053145,"classification":"oil paintings"},{"id":2052977,"classification":"paintings"}],"cultures":[],"cultureterms":[{"id":2031586,"culture":"British"}],"periods":[],"periodterms":[],"attribute_groups":[{"id":2199321,"term":"European Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199338,"term":"Nazi-era gaps","termtype":"Provenance & Cultural Heritage"}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"frame","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"45.00"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"31.43"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"27.62"},{"element":"frame","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"41.00"},{"element":"frame","type":"Depth","units":"centimeters","dimension":"5.50"}],"packages":[{"packageid":182999,"name":"image_descriptions_eps_painitings"},{"packageid":246533,"name":"EPS Provenance Nazi-era gaps"},{"packageid":278831,"name":"10282025-DAY1-ONVIEW"},{"packageid":197269,"name":"web_highlights -revised 2021"},{"packageid":276252,"name":"Nazi Era Sept 2025 list for web"},{"packageid":184110,"name":"CRS_2020_NataliePrizel_Mellon"},{"packageid":207234,"name":"SAB_Gala2021"},{"packageid":225374,"name":"Gallery_02-05(Pavilion1)-European [3]"}],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU2018_49760"],"displaymaker":"Jonathan Richardson, 1665–1745; born and died London, United Kingdom","displayculture":null,"displayperiod":null,"caption":"Jonathan Richardson (1665–1745; born and died London, United Kingdom), Self-Portrait, 1733. 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