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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 6, 2018 | Christie's | London | Old Masters Evening Sale | 58 | $****** - ****** | Portrait of John, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire (1723-1793), three-quarter-length, in peer's robes |
paintings
127.3 x 99.7 cm (50.13 x 39.25 in)
oil on canvas
By descent to the sitter’s eldest daughter,
Lady Henrietta, Marchioness of Lothian (1762-1805), who married William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian, and by descent to,
Philip Henry Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian (1882-1940), Newbattle Abbey, Dalkeith, Midlothian; (†), Christie's, London, 19 October 1951, lot 32, as ‘T. Gainsborough, R.A.’ (147 gns.) when acquired by the following,
with Newhouse Galleries, New York, from whom acquired by the following,
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, in 1952 (acc. no. 52.9.69), deaccessioned; Christie's, London, 16 November 1990, lot 10 (£66,000).
with Colnaghi, London.
with Historical Portraits, London, from whom acquired by,
William W. Winspear (1933–2007), Dallas, and by descent to his son, from whom acquired by the present owner in 2013.
London, National Portrait Gallery, National Portraits Exhibition, 1867, no. 706.
Norfolk, Norfolk Society of Fine Arts, November 1963.
Twickenham, Marble Hill House, on loan, May 2003.
Art News, April 1956, p. 46, illustrated.
E.K. Waterhouse, ‘Preliminary checklist of portraits by Thomas Gainsborough’, Walpole Society, XXXIII, 1953, p. 13, as ‘an early half-length copy’.
W.R. Valentiner, North Carolina Museum of Art: Catalogue of Paintings, North Carolina, 1956, no. 55, illustrated; 1967, no. 55, illustrated.
C.W. Stanford, North Carolina Museum of Art: British and American Painting and Sculpture, North Carolina, 1967, pp. 16-17.
W.R. Valentiner, North Carolina Museum of Art: British paintings to 1900, North Carolina, 1969, pp. 14-15, no. 71, illustrated.
H. Belsey, 'A Gainsborough Sitter Identified: John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire', Metropolitan Museum Journal, XLV, 2010, p. 214.
H. Belsey, Thomas Gainsborough: The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies after Old Masters, New Haven and London, 2018, no. 121 (forthcoming).
oil on canvas
50 1/8 x 39 ¼ in. (127.3 x 99.7 cm.)
