Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.

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.

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.