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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 4, 2019 | Sotheby's | London | Old Masters Evening Sale | 35 | $****** - ****** | Good | Portrait of H.R.H. Prince George, Prince of Wales (1762–1830), later King George IV |
paintings
75.5 x 63 cm (29.72 x 24.8 in)
oil on canvas
Commissioned by the sitter and sent to his younger brother, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763–1827), then attending military academy in Germany, in December 1782;
Perhaps Thomas Purvis QC;
His sale, London, Christie’s, 1 June 1849, lot 21 (as ‘Frederick, Duke of York, in Green Coat’), for £5–10s., to Anthony;
James Whatman, M.P. (1813–1887), Vinters, Maidstone;
His posthumous sale, London, Christie’s, 2 July 1887, lot 28 (as a portrait of the Duke of Cumberland), for £94–10s. to Lesser;
George Harland-Peck (1842–1920), London;
His posthumous sale, London, Christie’s, 25 June 1920, lot 64, for £399 to Gooden & Fox;
William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925);
His posthumous sale, New York, Anderson Galleries, 17–18 February 1926, lot 104;
With Newhouse Galleries, New York, 1958;
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby’s, 27 May 2004, lot 273 (as ‘Gainsborough Dupont, Portrait of Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland’);
The Forbes Collection, Old Battersea House, London;
Their sale, Lyon and Turnbull, Edinburgh, 1 November 2011, lot 141 (as ‘Gainsborough Dupont, Portrait of Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland’).
E. K. Waterhouse, 'A Gainsborough Bill for the Prince of Wales', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. LXXXVIII, November 1946, p. 276;
A. Aspinall, The correspondence of George Prince of Wales, vol. I, 1770–1789, London 1963, pp. 83, 93, 94 and 96;
O. Millar, The later Georgian pictures in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Oxford 1969, p. 35;
J. Hamilton, Gainsborough: A Portrait, London 2017, p. 341;
H. Belsey, Thomas Gainsborough. The portraits, fancy pictures and copies after Old Masters, New Haven and London 2019, vol. II, pp. 860–61, no. 928, reproduced in colour (as whereabouts unknown).
THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A.
湯馬斯・庚斯博羅，R.A.
Sudbury 1727 - 1788 London
1727年生於薩德伯里，1788年卒於倫敦
Portrait of H.R.H. Prince George, Prince of Wales (1762–1830), later King George IV
oil on canvas, framed as an oval
油彩畫布，裱框成橢圓形
75.5 x 63 cm.; 29¾ x 24¾ in.
75.5 x 63公分；29 ¾ x 24 ¾英寸
