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Dining room in the Huntington residence

Description: A table with six chairs around it, with three more chairs arranged against the wall. Four women stand in pairs looking at the portraits on the walls. The paintings are, from left to right, George Romney's Catherine (Halhead) Burton (1789), Sir Thomas Lawrence's Emily Anderson: Little red riding hood (circa 1821), and Sir Martin Archer Shee's Frances (Woodis) Borlase, later Frances Grenfell, and Pascoe George Norman Grenfell (circa 1804). MS notes on verso read "HEH residence as art gallery: dining room" and "L.A. Chamber of Commerce."
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Call number: photCL 107 fld23 (18)
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Dining room in the Huntington residence

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View shows table and chairs, and the fireplace. Above the fireplace is George Romney's Catherine (Halhead) Burton (1789); on the wall next to this is Sir Thomas Lawrence's Emily Anderson: Little Red Riding Hood (circa 1821). Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 19 Dining room, Huntington Art Gallery."

photCL 107 vol13 (19)

Dining room in the Huntington residence

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View shows furniture and the fireplace. Above the fireplace is George Romney's Catherine (Halhead) Burton (1789). Label accompanying photograph in album reads "HEH 18 Dining room, Huntington Art Gallery."

photCL 107 vol13 (18)

Dining room in the Huntington residence

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In the foreground is a table with six chairs around it, on an area rug. Another four chairs are arranged against the wall. The paintings hanging on the wall are all by George Romney: (from left to right) Catherine (Halhead) Burton (1789), Penelope (Rycroft) Lee Acton (1791), and Jeremiah Miles (1780-1783). Above the table is a metal and glass chandelier with electric candles. MS note on verso reads "HEH residence as art gallery: dining room." Stamp on verso reads "Keystone Photo Service, 1231 Olive Street, Los Angeles, Cal." This photograph appeared in Pictorial California and the Pacific in November 1930.

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Portrait gallery in the Huntington residence

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The portraits on the walls, from left to right: Sir Joshua Reynolds' Diana (Sackville), Viscountess Crosbie (1777); Sir Thomas Lawrence's Sarah Goodin Barrett Moulton: "Pinkie" (1794) above a bronze sculpture, Renommée (Fame) by an unknown foundry, after Antoine Coysevox, made between 1700 and 1710; Reynolds' Jane Fleming, later Countess of Harrington (1778-1779); Reynolds' Lavinia (Bingham), Countess Spencer, and John Charles Spencer, Viscount Althorp, later Earl Spencer (1783-1784); Thomas Gainsborough's Karl Friedrich Abel (circa 1777); George Romney's Penelope (Rycroft) Lee Acton (1791); Reynolds' Sarah (Kemble) Siddons as the Tragic Muse (1783-1784); MS note on verso reads "HEH art gallery: new wing, c. 1933." Stamp on verso reads "Hiller Studio, 336 So. Hudson, TE. 6904 Pasadena."

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Portrait gallery in the Huntington residence

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The portraits on the walls, from left to right: George Romney's Penelope (Rycroft) Lee Acton (1791); Sir Joshua Reynolds' Sarah (Kemble) Siddons as the Tragic Muse (1783-1784); Reynolds' Georgiana (Spencer) Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1775-1776); John Hoppner's Isabella (Ingram) Seymour Conway, Viscountess Beauchamp, later Marchioness of Hertford (circa 1789); Thomas Gainsborough's Henrietta Read, later Henrietta Meares (circa 1777); Gainsborough's The Hon. Anne (Batson) Fane (circa 1782); George Romney's Jeremiah Milles (1780-1783); Gainsborough's Jonathan Buttall: the blue boy (1770). The bronze sculpture beneath "Blue Boy" is Mercure (Mercury) by an unknown foundry, after Antoine Coysevox, made between 1700 and 1710. MS note on verso reads "HEH art gallery: new wing (interior view)."

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Six people in period costume in the dining room in the Huntington residence

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The people, from left to right, are Victor Mature, Connie Compaigne, Sheila Stapler, "Buck" Edgar Buchanan, Hal Landon, and Ann West (Wood). Compaigne and Buchanan are seated at a table in dining room, while a standing Mature speaks to Compaigne, and Stapler carries a silver tray. Landon is standing next to the fireplace speaking to a seated West. George Romney's Catherine (Halead) Burton (1789) hangs over the fireplace. Label accompanying photograph in album reads "Tea party group in Dining Room, Huntington Art Gallery. Original fireplace from old house in Hanover Square, London, 1755. Chairs, Georgian, about 1740. Tea table, about 1760." Buchanan has elsewhere been identified as Frederick Blanchard.

photCL 107 vol13 (29a)

Dining room in the Huntington residence

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