LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Size Notes:
127 x 101.6
Description:
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Literature:
H. Belsey, Thomas Gainsborough: The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies after Old Masters, New Haven and London 2019, I, pp. 396397, no. 400, illustrated.
Provenance:
Commissioned by the sitters father, John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland (1692-1782), and by iheritance to his third cousin,John, 4th Earl and 1st Marquess of Breadalbane, FRS. (1762-1834), Taymouth Castle, Perthshire; by descent to his son,John, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane KT, FRS, PSA, PBA (1796-1862), and by inheritance to his elder sister, Lady Elizabeth Campbell (17941878), wife of Sir John Pringle, 5th Bt, Langton House, Duns, and by descent to her daughter,Mary Gavin Pringle, (1832-1911), wife of Major The Hon. Robert Baillie-Hamilton (1828-1891), and by inheritance to her sister, Magdelina Breadalbane Pringle (1836-1913), wife of Sir Robert Bateson Harvey, 1st Bt (1825-1887) and by inheritance to her godson and first cousin twice-removed, Lt Col. The Hon. Thomas Morgan-Grenville-Gavin (1891-1965), grandfather of the present owner.