Mr Crane’s children (I figli di Mr Crane)
For his third exhibition in America, Troubetzkoy had the opportunity to sculpt many members of noble families, mostly entrepreneurs and bankers. In addition to the portrait of Mrs Harold McCormick (cfr. Cat. Mostra Verbania Pallanza 1990 p. 206 n. 165), the sculptor received many commissions from the Crane family. The subjects depicted in the plaster are the children of Richard Teller Jr and Florence Higinbotham, Florence and Cornelius. A brief article on the Chicago Record Herald of the 7th of April 1912 mentions other portraits by Troubetzkoy for the Crane family: Charles Richard Crane, the children’s uncle and of Frances Crane, his wife (Frezzotti, 2017).
Paul Troubetzkoy (1866-1938), Italy, until 1938;
By descent to the heirs, Rhoda Muriel Marie Somerwell and Luigi Troubetzkoy;
Donated to the Museo del Paesaggio, 1938-1939
Prima Esposizione Nazionale d'arte della Secessione, Rome 1913, n. 68;
Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania, 1990, n. 165
Chicago Record Herald, 7 aprile 1912;
S. Frezzotti, in exh. cat. , Paolo Troubetzkoy, 1990 p. 206 n. 165;
Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, p. 176;
Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania, 2017,Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania, 2017, p. 176