ID 990694
Lot 200 | THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. (SUDBURY, SUFFOLK 1727-1788 LONDON)
Valeur estimée
£ 10 000 – 15 000
Portrait of Henry Fane, M.P. (1703-1777), of Wormsley, Oxfordshire, half-length, in a gold-embroidered pink velvet coat and waistcoat, a tricorne hat under his arm, in a feigned oval
oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 25 in. (76.5 x 63.5 cm.)
Provenance
By descent through the sitter's second daughter Mary, wife of Sir Thomas Stapleton, 5th Bt. (1727-1781), to the following,
Sir Miles Talbot Stapleton, 9th Bt. (1893-1977), Greys Court, Henley-on-Thames; Christie's, London, 26 March 1926, lot 10 (440 gns. to Leggatt).
with David Croal Thomson, Barbizon House, London, 1927.
Sir Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon (1857-1941), 1927, and by inheritance to his widow,
Helen Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon, Manor House, Stoke D'Abernon, Surrey; (†) Christie's, London, 18 March 1955, lot 40 (700 gns. to Agnews).
with Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, from whom acquired in August 1957 by the following,
Sir Sydney Barratt (1898-1975), Crowe Hall, Bath, and by descent to the present owners.
Literature
E.K. Waterhouse, 'Preliminary Check List of Portraits of Thomas Gainsborough', Walpole Society, XXXIII, 1953, p. 38.
E.K. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, London, 1958, p. 66, no. 247, where dated to the 'Bath period: probably 1760s'.
H. Belsey, Thomas Gainsborough: The Portraits, Fancy Pictures, and Copies after Old Masters, New Haven and London, 2019, I, pp. 311-12, no. 322, illustrated.
Exhibited
Bristol, City Art Gallery, Treasures from West Country Collections, 1-30 September 1967, no. 20.
| Artiste: | Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Huile, Huile sur toile, Peint |
| Style artistique: | Peinture britannique |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Peintures |
| Artiste: | Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Huile, Huile sur toile, Peint |
| Style artistique: | Peinture britannique |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Peintures |
| Adresse de l'enchère |
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