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THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. (SUDBURY 1727-1788 LONDON)

Lot 106
04.07.2023 14:30UTC +00:00
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ID 991599
Lot 106 | THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. (SUDBURY 1727-1788 LONDON)
Estimate value
£ 150 000 – 250 000
THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. (SUDBURY 1727-1788 LONDON)

A young man reclining on a bank beneath a tree, possibly a self-portrait

pencil

7 3/8 x 5 3/4 in. (18.8 x 14.8 cm.)





Provenance

Dr John Percy (L.1504) (†); Christie's, London, 15 April 1890, lot 478 (2 gns to Dowdeswell).

with The Independent Gallery, London, 1929.

Percy Moore Turner.

Dr and Mrs Frederick W. Geib; Sotheby's, London, 11 November 1982, lot 71.

Private collection, New York, until 1988.

Private collection, UK.



Literature

Illustrated London News, 1 July 1929, p. 34 (illustrated).

M. Woodall, Gainsborough's Landscape Drawings, London, 1939, p. 36 (illustrated pl. 28, no. 314).

J. Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London, 1970, p. 112, no. 9.



Exhibited

London, Independent Gallery, Exhibition of Early English Water-Colours and Drawings, May 1928, no. 30.

Ipswich, Ipswich Museum, Bicentenary Memorial Exhibition of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A., 1929, no. 119.

Oxford, Oxford Arts Club, Drawings by Thomas Gainsborough, 1935, no. 39.

Aldeburgh, Aldeburgh Festival, Exhibition of Drawings by Thomas Gainsborough, 1949, no. 22.

London, The Leger Galleries, British Painting, May-June 1989, No.3
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