Tate Provenance Research Project Spoliation Reports

UK Museums Provenance Research Projects: TATE

Lists of works with incomplete provenance during the period 1933 - 1945

Spoliation Reports Phases 1,2 and 3

Phase 4 - List of works with incomplete provenance during the period 1933 - 1945

ABBOTT, Lemuel Francis (1760-1803)

Portrait of the Engraver Francesco Bartolozzi, No date
Oil paint on canvas
756 x 676 mm
Presented by Mrs M. Bernard 1968
T01067

Provenance:

• …; Mrs M Bernard, by 1968
Questions in the operative period:
No published provenance pre-1968
AGASSE, Jacques Laurent (1767-1849)
Two Hunters with a Groom (circa 1805)
Oil on canvas
638 x 759 mm
Presented by Paul Mellon through the British Sporting Art Trust 1979
T02350

Provenance:

• …; reportedly bought by Oscar Johnson (d.1968), before 1963
• Oscar & Peter Johnson Ltd
• From whom purchased by Paul Mellon 1968
• Presented by Paul Mellon, 1979
Questions in the operative period:
No information on whereabouts prior to acquisition by Oscar Johnson
ALKEN, Henry Thomas (1785-1851)
The Belvoir Hunt: Jumping into and out of a Lane (circa 1830-40)
Oil on canvas
451 x 648 mm
Presented by Paul Mellon through the British Sporting Art Trust 1979
T02353
Provenance:
• …; Arthur Ackermann and Son Ltd
• From whom purchased by Paul Mellon 1964
Questions in the operative period:
No information on whereabouts prior to acquisition by Ackermann and Son Ltd