Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.

A wooded landscape in Suffolk

Auction Closed

June 29, 08:07 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

The Property from a Private Collection, England

Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.

Sudbury 1727 - 1788 London

A wooded landscape in Suffolk

oil on canvas

unframed: 30.5 x 35 cm.; 12 x 13¾ in.

framed: 44.5 x 48.6 cm.; 17¾ x 19¼ in.

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英國私人收藏

湯馬斯・庚斯博羅，R.A.

1727年生於薩德伯里，1788年卒於倫敦

《薩福克樹木風景畫》

油彩畫布

不連框：30.5 x 35 公分；12 x 13¾ 英寸

連框：44.5 x 48.6 公分；17¾ x 19¼ 英寸

Please note this frame is displayed in a loan frame from Arnold Wiggins and Sons. Should you wish to purchase it please contact a member of the Old Master Paintings department.

Probably William Beckford (1759–1844), Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire;

By descent to his daughter Susan, wife of Alexander, 10th Duke of Hamilton (1767–1852);

Thence by descent until sold, Hamilton Palace sale, London, Christie’s, 8 July 1882, lot 1104, to Agnews for 168 pounds;

Robert Windsor-Clive, later 1st Earl of Plymouth (1857–1923), by 1888;

Thence by descent to his grandson, Hon. Rowland Windsor-Clive (1938–1965);

By whom sold, London, Christie’s, 25 March 1966, lot 79;

Where by purchased by Leggatt and Colnaghi for 18,000 gns.;

With Agnews in 1966;

From whom presumably purchased by Irene, Countess of Plymouth (1902–1989) at an unknown date;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 22 April 1983, lot 33, where acquired by the father of the present owner for £65,000.

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works of The Old Masters, January–March 1894, no. 5;

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Illustrating Georgian England, March–May 1906, no. 9;

Worcester, Victoria Institute, County Art Treasures, May–July 1937, no. 103;

Birmingham, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Treasures from Midland Homes, November–December 1938, no. 131;

Bath, Victoria Art Gallery, Paintings and Drawings by Thomas Gainsborough, May–June 1951, no. 37;

Nottingham, Nottingham University Art Gallery, Landscapes by Thomas Gainsborough, November 1962, no. 7;

London, Thomas Agnew & Sons., Realism and Romance in English Painting, November–December 1966, no. 26;

On long term loan to the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, since 1982.

Possibly 1852/1853 Hamilton Palace Inventory, Hamilton Archive, Lennoxlove, Volume 1228, p .156 (as ‘Landscape [by] Gainsborough’– hanging in the Old Dining Room on the ground floor);

Possibly 1876 Hamilton Palace Inventory, Hamilton Town House Library, Hamilton Ms., p. 246 (as ‘A Landscape [by] T. Gainsborough – hanging in the Old Dining Room);

Sir W. Armstrong, Gainsborough, London 1898, p. 208;

Sir W. Armstrong, Gainsborough, London 1904, p. 290;

K. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, London 1958, p. 111, no. 881;

M. Woodall, ‘Gainsborough Landscapes at Nottingham University’, in The Burlington Magazine, December 1962, p. 562;

J. Hayes, The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough, London 1982, vol. I, p. 72, reproduced pl. 88, vol. II, pp. 360–61, no. 31, reproduced.