LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Size Notes:
127.1 x 99 cm.; 50 x 39 in.
Exhibited:
Sudbury, Gainsborough's House, on loan 2001–02.
Literature:
E.K. Waterhouse, 'Check list of portraits by Thomas Gainsborough. Identified portraits', in The Walpole Society, vol. XXXIII, Oxford 1953, p. 91; ; On the House: The newsletter of Gainsborough's House Society and the Friends of Gainsborough's House, Issue 42, January 2002, p. 4, reproduced (detail); ; H. Belsey, Thomas Gainsborough. The portraits, fancy pictures and copies after Old Masters, New Haven and London 2019, vol. 2, pp. 711–12, cat. no. 769, reproduced in colour p. 712.
Provenance:
Miss Catherine Heaslop, Isle of Wight, by 1949;; Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 7 July 1965, lot 113, where acquired by the father of the present owner. ; ;