Lot 153
Property of a Private Collector, New York
Thomas Gainsborough R.A.
Sudbury 1727 - 1788 London
Portrait of Edward Richard Gardiner
oil on canvas
canvas: 14½by 12½in.; 36.8 by 31.8 cm.
framed: 21½ by 19½ in.; 54.6 by 49.5 cm.
Condition Report
Provenance
Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 25 June 1904, lot 52 (for £78.15s);
There acquired by Colnaghi, London;
Charles T. D. Crews (1839–1915), Billingbear Park, Berkshire;
His posthumous sale, London, Christie’s, 1 July 1915, lot 100;
With Knoedler, New York, 1920;
With John Levy, New York;
Private collection, USA.
Literature
K. Waterhouse, ‘Preliminary Check-List of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough’, in Walpole Society, vol. XXXIII, 1953, p. 46;
K. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, London 1958, p. 100, cat. no. 776;
H. Belsey, Thomas Gainsborough: The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies after Old Masters, New Haven and London 2019, vol. 2, p. 1013, cat. no. R.14.
Exhibited
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Spring Exhibition, March–May 1906, no. 73.
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