Gainsborough Dupont Sudbury, Suffolk 1754 - 1797 London

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Description

Gainsborough Dupont
Portrait of the Hon. Mrs. Augustus Phipps
half-length wearning a blue striped dress with white fichu, her hair powdered, standing in a landscape
oil on canvas
30 by 25 in.
76 by 63.5 cm.

Provenance

Marquess of Normanby, 1877;
Sir Anthony de Rothschild, London;
Abel Buckley, London, by 1898;
With Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London;
From whom purchased by Sir George Donaldson;
His sale, Hove, July 7, 1925, lot 265 (as the "Hon. Augusta Phipps")bought in;
By whom (anonymously) sold, London, Christie's, May 20, 1927, lot 43 (as by T. Gainsborough, the "Hon. Augusta Phipps"), to Wyatt;
With Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd.,
Ronald L. Taylor, Philadelphia;
His sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., April 5, 1944, lot 29;
With Maxwell Galleries, California;
Mr. and Mrs. Kay Kimbell, Fort Worth, Texas, by 1944;
By whom given to the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Work, Texas;
By whom sold, New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., December 2, 1976, lot 45 (as "Miss Augusta Phipps").

Exhibited

Manchester, Art Gallery, Loan Exhibition of Works by Early British Masters, November, 1909-January, 1910, no. 38.

Literature

W. Armstrong, Gainsborough and his Place in English Art, London 1898, p. 200 (asby Thomas Gainsborough, "Lady Augusta Phipps");
Apollo, June 1925, Vol. XXVI, reproduced opp. p. 360 (as by Thomas Gainsborough);
E.K. Waterhouse, "Preliminary Check List of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough," in Walpole Society, 1953, p. 84.