In Portrait of Mrs. Cecil Wade, how is the Provenance discussed?
After the 1908 death of the sitter, Francis Frew Wade (who had owned and kept the painting in London since 1886), the piece passed into the ownership of her daughter, Aileen Wade, who remained living in London. Aileen Wade bequeathed the painting to her nephew, Sir Ruthven L. Wade, and he received the work in 1955. It was under his ownership in Dinton, England until 1986, when it was auctioned at Sotheby’s New York and bought by the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1986, Enid and Crosby Kemper gifted the painting to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, where it currently hangs prominently in the Sarah and Landon Rowland American art galleries.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City, Missouri