LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

88.98 in. (226.00 cm.) (height) by 57.87 in. (147.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1878, no. 150 (lent by Henry Villebois). London, Grosvenor Gallery, 1885, no. 186 (lent by Henry Villebois). London, Agnew's, 1928, no. 17. London, 45 Park Lane, Gainsborough, 1936, no. 33.

Literature:

Sir W. Armstrong, Gainsborough and his Place in English Art, London, 1898, p. 203. Sir W. Armstrong, Gainsborough and his Place in British Art, 1904, p. 281. E.K. Waterhouse, 'Preliminary check list of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough', The Walpole Society, XXXIII, 1953, p. 110. E.K. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, London, 1958, p. 94, no. 696, pl. 164 (where dated 1777). The Story of Truman Hanbury Buxton & Co Ltd., privately printed, London and Burton, 1966, pp. 13, 16, and 48-9. Cowdray catalogue, 1971, p. 7, no. 22, pl. 38 (in the Buck Hall). D. Cherry and J. Harris, 'Eighteenth Century Portraiture and the Seventeenth Century Past: Gainsborough and Van Dyck', Art History, 5 September 1982, pp. 302-3, fig. 28. R. Asleson and S.M. Bennett, British Paintings at the Huntington, New Haven and London, 2001, under no. 25, p. 148, fig. 64. M. Rosenthal and M. Myrone, eds., Gainsborough, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London, 2002, under no. 99. B.E. Escott, The Story of Halton House, Halton, 2003, p. 76, illustrated in the North Drawing Room.

Provenance:

Commissioned by the sitter's grandfather, Sir Benjamin Truman (1700-1780), of Popes, Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire, and Brick Lane, Spitalfields, and by descent to his great-great-grandson. Henry Truman Villebois (1807-1886), from whom acquired in 1886 by. Alfred de Rothschild (1842-1918), by whom hung at Halton House, Buckinghamshire, in the North Drawing Room, and by inheritance to Almina Wombwell, Countess of Carnarvon (d. 1969), wife of Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon. The Hon. Charles Hanbury, from whom acquired by. Agnew's, London, from whom purchased on 13 November 1919 for £49,500 by. Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray (1856-1927), by whom hung at no. 17 Carlton House Terrace, London, and by descent at Cowdray Park.