LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

49.3 x 60.6

Description:

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Exhibited:

London, Society of British Artists, Exhibition of the works of deceased and living British artists, 1833, no. 108. London, British Institution, Exhibition of the Ancient Masters, 1858, no. 143. London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of the Old Masters and deceased masters of the British School, 1871, no. 241.London, Grosvenor Gallery, The Works of Thomas Gainsborough , R.A., 1885 , no. 133.

Literature:

E. Edwards, Anecdotes of Painters who have resided or been born in England, London, 1808, p. 142.G. Scharf, Artistic and descriptive notes on the most remarkable pictures in the British Institution, London, 1858, pp. 35-36, no. 143.E. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, London, 1958, p. 110, no. 866.J. Hayes, Gainsborough as Printmaker, London, 1971, no. 21, pp. 3 and 105.J. Hayes, The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough, London, 1982, I, p. 257; II, pp. 371-2, no. 39.

Provenance:

(Possibly) commissioned by Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford (1704-1790), and by descent to,Susan, ne Coutts, 2nd wife of George North, 3rd Earl of Guilford (1757-1802), and by descent to their daughter,Susan Baroness North (1797-1884), who married Colonel John Sidney Doyle, later North (1804-1894), Wroxall Abbey, by whose executors sold in the following, Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 July 1897, lot 54, (to. Tooth). Anonymous sale [The Property of a Deceased Estate]; Sotheby's, London, 14 November 1990, lot 101, where acquired by the present owner.