LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Size Notes:
30.5 x 35
Description:
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Exhibited:
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works of The Old Masters, JanuaryMarch 1894, no. 5;London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Illustrating Georgian England, MarchMay 1906, no. 9;Worcester, Victoria Institute, County Art Treasures, MayJuly 1937, no. 103;Birmingham, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Treasures from Midland Homes, NovemberDecember 1938, no. 131;Bath, Victoria Art Gallery, Paintings and Drawings by Thomas Gainsborough, MayJune 1951, no. 37;Nottingham, Nottingham University Art Gallery, Landscapes by Thomas Gainsborough, November 1962, no. 7;London, Thomas Agnew & Sons., Realism and Romance in English Painting, NovemberDecember 1966, no. 26;On long term loan to the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, since1982.
Literature:
Possibly 1852/1853 Hamilton Palace Inventory, Hamilton Archive, Lennoxlove, Volume 1228, p .156 (as Landscape [by] Gainsborough hanging in the Old Dining Room on the ground floor);Possibly 1876 Hamilton Palace Inventory, Hamilton Town House Library, Hamilton Ms., p. 246 (as A Landscape [by] T. Gainsborough hanging in the Old Dining Room);Sir W. Armstrong, Gainsborough, London 1898, p. 208;Sir W. Armstrong, Gainsborough, London 1904, p. 290;K. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, London 1958, p. 111, no. 881;M. Woodall, Gainsborough Landscapes at Nottingham University, in The Burlington Magazine, December 1962, p. 562;J. Hayes, The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough, London 1982, vol. I, p. 72, reproduced pl. 88, vol. II, pp. 36061, no. 31, reproduced.;
Provenance:
Probably William Beckford (17591844), Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire;By descent to his daughter Susan, wife of Alexander, 10th Duke of Hamilton (17671852);Thence by descent until sold, Hamilton Palace sale, London, Christies, 8 July 1882, lot 1104, to Agnews for 168 pounds;Robert Windsor-Clive, later 1st Earl of Plymouth (18571923), by 1888;Thence by descent to his grandson, Hon. Rowland Windsor-Clive (19381965);By whom sold, London, Christies, 25 March 1966, lot 79;Where by purchased by Leggatt and Colnaghi for 18,000 gns.;With Agnews in 1966;From whom presumably purchased by Irene, Countess of Plymouth (19021989) at an unknown date;Anonymous sale, London, Christies, 22 April 1983, lot 33, where acquired by the father of the present owner for 65,000.