Anne Boutineau Robinson

Anne Boutineau [b. 1748] and John [d. 1787] Robinson, Boston and England [1]; James [1710-1778] and Susannah Faneuil Boutineau [1712-1792], Boston and Bristol, England [2]; Susannah Boutineau [1740-1816] and Michael [1733-1782] Francklin, Boston and Nova Scotia [3]; James Boutineau Francklin [1763-1841], Nova Scotia [4]; inherited by Elizabeth Gould Francklin [1808-1874] and Rev. Robert Fitzgerald [1797-1870] Uniacke, Halifax, Nova Scotia [5]; inherited by James Boyle Uniacke [1840-1901], Halifax, Nova Scotia (?) [6]; inherited by Sadie Uniacke Rutherford [1866-1953], Buckinghamshire, England, 1927 [7]; by descent; (Sotheby’s Sale, London, March 22, 1972, no. 84) [8]; Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York City, 1972 until at least 1977; Stanley [1920-2016] and Doris [1921/1922-2014] Tananbaum, Harrison, New York; by descent; Hirschl & Adler, New York City, since at least December 2017.

[1] The couple likely commissioned the portrait around the time of their marriage, October 5, 1769; though the couple initially lived in Boston, they moved to England in March 1770, along with Anne’s parents
[2] James and Susannah Boutineau are the parents of Anne Boutineau Robinson (Hirschl & Adler documentation lists the couple as acquiring the work in 1770)
[3] Susannah Boutineau Francklin was the daughter of James and Susannah Boutineau and the sister of Anne Boutineau Robinson; Susannah was born in Boston and moved with her husband (who was born in Poole, England) to Nova Scotia, she died in Windsor and he died in Halifax (Hirschl & Adler documentation lists the couple as acquiring the work in 1775)
[4] James Boutineau Francklin was the son of Susannah and Michael Francklin
[5] Elizabeth Gould Francklin Uniacke was the daughter of James Boutineau Francklin
[6] Hirschl & Adler documentation lists the work as passing by descent from Rev. Robert Fitzgerald Uniacke with Uniacke House, Mount Uniacke, Nova Scotia, until 1927; Rev. Robert Uniacke had no children, and of his 11 siblings, seemingly only one, his youngest (half) brother, Andrew Mitchell Uniacke, was still alive at his death in 1870; however, it seems most likely that the work passed to his nephew, James Boyle Uniacke (Jr.), son of Rev. Uniacke’s brother, James Boyle Uniacke (Sr.) (1799-1858), as James Boyle Uniacke (Jr.) succeed his uncle as rector of St. George’s Parish and inherited the family estate, Mount Uniacke, in the 1880s; additionally, James Boyle Uniacke is the father of Sadie Uniacke Rutherford, who inherited the work in 1927
[7] Sadie Uniacke Rutherford was the daughter of James Boyle Uniacke and his first wife, Sarah Rachel Wilkins (Hirschl & Adler documentation lists Sadie as acquiring the work in 1927)
[8] As “Portrait of Mrs. Robinson, nee Boutineau”