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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 5, 2011 | Christie's | London | Old Master & British Paintings - Evening Sale | 54 | $****** - ****** | Portrait of Colonel John Bullock dressed in military uniform in a landscape, with a dog at his feet | |||
Jun 13, 2002 | Sotheby's | London | Important British Paintings | 7 | $****** - ****** | Portrait of Colonel John Bullock |
paintings
227.3 x 152.4 cm (89.49 x 60 in)
oil on canvas
By descent to the sitter's nephew, the son of Bullock's sister Elizabeth, Jonathan Josiah Christopher Watson (1749-1832), who assumed the name of Bullock and by descent to Henry William Bullock; his sale, Christie's, London, 19 March 1892, lot 755 (sold 525 gns. to Gooden presmuably for the following) Sir W. Cuthbert Quilter, Bt (1841-1911), Bawdsey Manor, Suffolk, until 1905, when purchased from him by Arthur Bass, 1st Baron Burton (1837-1909), and by descent until Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 24 April 1987, lot 102 (to Colnaghi). Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 June 2002, lot 7 (when acquired by the present owner)
London, Royal Academy 1892, no. 12. London, 45 Park Lane, Gainsborough Loan Exhibition..., 1936, no. 3. Birmingham City Art Gallery, on loan 1963-1972. London, Government Art Collection (displayed at Marlborough House and 10 Downing Street), on loan 1971-1987. Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, on loan 2002. Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, From the Private Collections of Texas: European Art, Ancient to Modern, 2009-2010, no. 44. Engraved in mezzotint by James Scott for Henry Graves & Co. published in 1871
G.W. Fulcher, Life of Thomas Gainsborough R.A., London, 1856, 1st ed., p. 225; 2nd ed., 1856, p. 229. Sir W. Armstrong, Gainsborough and his Place in English Art, London & New York, 1st ed., 1898, p. 192; 2nd ed., 1904, p. 260. C.W. Bullock, Memoir of the Family of Bullock of Berkshire, Essex and Other Counties, Rugby, 1905, pp. 39, 138 and 140. J.W. Burrows, The Essex Regiment: The Essex Militia, Southend-on-Sea, 1929, p. 136. E.K. Waterhouse, 'Preliminary Check List of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough',The Walpole Society 1948-50, XXXIII, 1953, p. 13. E.K. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, London, 1958, p. 56, no. 95, pl. 139. R.J.B. Walker, 'New Portraits at No. 10', Country Life, CLI, 15 June 1972, pp. 1534-5. R.J.B. Walker, Marlborough House: A Catalogue of Paintings and Engravings, privately printed, London, 1976, p. 95. A. Cormack, 'Colonel John H. Bullock (1731-1809) East Essex Militia', Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, LXVII, 1989, pp. 62-4, illustrated. M. Cormack, The Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough, Cambridge, 1991, pp. 62-4, illustrated
