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McCormick, Robert Hall, 1847-1917

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dates 1847-1917
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historical notes Businessman and son of Leander J McCormick a founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, in Chicago.

McCormick collected British portraits and landscapes. His purchases covered the period in England between the reign of Charles I. and that of Victoria.

According to the Institute of Chicago’s exhibition catalogue “Collection of Painting Belonging to R Hall McCormick, Principally of the English School,” 1900, McCormick's collection included work by Thomas Barker (Barker of Bath), Sir William Beechey, Richard Parks Bonington, Sir Augustus Wall Callocott, William Collins, John Constable, Francis Cotes, John Sell Cotman, John Crome, Henry Dawson, Sir Anthonius Van Dyck, William Etty, Thomas Gainsborough, John Frederick Herring, William Hogarth, Hans Holbein, John Hoppner, James Inskipp, Cornelis Van Keulen Janssens, Sir Godfre Kneller, Sir Edwin Landseer, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Sir Peter Lely, John Linnell, William Linton, George Hemming Mason, Michael Janszen Mierevelt, George Morland, William James Mueller, Patrick Nasmyth, John Opie, Sir Henry Raeburn, Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Rilev, George Romney, Robert Smirke, William Clarkson Stanfield, James Stark, Thomas Stothard, George Vincent, George Frederick Watts, Benjamin West, Sir Davie Wilkie, George Barrett Willcock, and Richard Wilson.
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see also:
McCormick, L. Hamilton (Leander Hamilton), 1859-1934