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THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. | Portrait of J. Dudley, half-length, wearing a long bob wig and in a grey coat

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May 8, 12:10 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

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Property from a European Private Collection

THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A.

Sudbury 1727-1788 London

Portrait of J. Dudley, half-length, wearing a long bob wig and in a grey coat


inscribed on the reverse of the canvas: J. Dudley

oil on canvas

76.2 x 63.5 cm.; 30 x 25 in.

Anonymous sale, London, Bonhams, 25 May 1961, lot 22 where purchased by Sabin;

With Sidney Sabin, London;

From whom purchased by Henri-Philippe Crombé (1904–69), Brussels, by 1963;

Thence by descent to the present owner.

J. Hayes, 'Some Unknown Early Gainsborough Portraits', in The Burlington Magazine, February 1965, vol. 107, no. 743, pp. 69 and 74, cat. no. 3;

H. Belsey, Thomas Gainsborough, vol. I, New Haven and London 2019, p. 270, cat. no. 277, reproduced.