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Chess Players
Chess Players
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Chess Players

Artist (British, 1746–1831)
Date1807
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionscanvas: 106.7 x 144.8 cm (42 x 57 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Janet B. Daniels in memory of Bruce Goddard Daniels
Terms
Object number2005.71
ProvenanceCommissioned by Richard Chichele Plowden (1743-1830), England, 1806; by descent to William Henry Chichele Plowden (1787-1880), Basingstoke, England, 1830; bequeathed to his son, Sir William Henry Chichele Plowden (1832-1915), Oxfordshire, England, 1880; bequeathed to his daughter, Lady Vaux of Harrowden (Margaret Annette Jane Mostyn, d. 1922), England, 1915; sold by Lady Vaux of Harrowden on the London Art Market, 1917; soldy by Arthur Tooth & Son, NY to Fred Harold Daniels (1887-1967), Worcester, MA, Dec. 1921; Bruce Goddard Daniels (1924-2002) and Janet B. Daniels (1924-2015), Lincoln, MA; gifted to the Worcester Art Museum, MA, 2005.
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