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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 6, 2018 | Sotheby's | London | Old Masters Day Sale | 209 | $****** - ****** | Good | WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH RUSTIC LOVERS AND TWO COWS |
paintings
63.5 x 76.2 cm (25 x 30 in)
oil on canvas
Acquired by Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater (1736–1803), for the Bridgewater Gallery in 1798;
Bequeathed to his nephew, George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford and 1st Duke of Sutherland (1758–1833);
By descent to his second son, Francis Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800–1857);
Thence by descent to John Egerton, 5th Earl of Ellesmere and 6th Duke of Sutherland (1915–2000);
Sold, by order of 'The Trustees of The Ellesmere 1939 Settlement', London, Christie's, 18 June 1976, lot 119, for £11,500, to Richard Green;
With Richard Green, London;
Private collection, England.
The European Museum, 1798;
London, British Institution, 1841, no. 103.
Morning Post, 22 March 1798;
W.Y. Ottley, Engravings of the most noble Marquis of Stafford's collection of pictures, London 1818, vol. III, p. 142, no. 5, reproduced from an engraving;
J.P. Neale, View of Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen, vol. IV, London 1821, unpaginated (recorded hanging in the New Alcove Room at Trentham Hall, Staffordshire);
J. Young, A Catalogue of the Pictures, of the most noble the Marquess of Stafford, at Cleveland House, London 1825, vol. II, p. 184, no. 257, reproduced in etching;
Mrs Jameson, Companion to the most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London, London 1844, p. 161;
G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, 3 vols, London 1854, vol. II, p. 53 (listed among the collection at Bridgewater House);
G.W. Fulcher, Life of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A., London 1856, p. 207;
W. Armstrong, Gainsborough & his place in English Art, London 1898, p. 205;
W. Armstrong, Gainsborough & his place in English Art, London 1904, p. 286;
E. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, London 1958, cat. no. 983;
J. Hayes, The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough, 2 vols, London 1982, vol. II, pp. 557–58, cat. no. 175, reproduced p. 558.
ENGRAVED
I.H. Wright, published by Longman, 2 September 1816.
oil on canvas
63.5 x 76.2 cm.; 25 x 30 in.
