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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 10, 2015 | Sotheby's | London | Old Master & British Paintings Day Sale | 197 | $****** - ****** | Wooded landscape with children descending the steps of a mansion |
paintings
153 x 183.5 cm (60.24 x 72.24 in)
oil on canvas
Probably Schomberg House sale, March-May 1789, lot 68
. Mrs. Gainsborough sale, London, Christie's, 2 June 1792, lot 82, where unsold
. Margaret Gainsborough, by 1799
. George, Prince of Wales, later George IV (1762-1830)
. Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 29 June 1814, lot 21, to Rutley
. Sir George Warrender (1782-1849) by 1817
. By whom sold, London, Christie's, 3 June 1837, lot 21, to Stuart (as painted by Gainsborough for the Prince of Wales)
. Sir Thomas Baring (1772-1848)
. His sale, London, Christie's, 2 June 1848, lot 61 (as 'a lodge in Windsor Park, with royal children descending some stone steps') where unsold
. Sir Thomas Baring (1799-1873), by 1854
. Anonymous sale, Robinson and Fisher's, 21 June 1900, lot 109, to S.T. Smith
. John Pierpont Morgan Jr. (1867-1943), New York, by 1900
. Thence by descent to his daughter Mrs. George Nichols
. With Coleman Galleries, New York, 1951
. From whom purchased by Robert Perret, Kinderhook, New York
. Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 30 May 2009, lot 54..
Probably, London, Schomberg House, 1789, no. 68;. London, British Institution, 1817, no. 25;. London, British Institution, 1840, no. 84, as including portraits of George IV and the Princess Royal when children.
Athenaeum, 10 June 1848, p. 585;. L. Marvy and W.M. Thackeray, Sketches after English Landscape Painters, London c. 1850;. G. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London 1854, vol. II, p. 189;. G.W. Fulcher, Life of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A., London 1856, pp. 194 and 204;. W.T. Whitley, Thomas Gainsborough, London 1915, p. 342;. W.T. Whitley, 'An Eighteenth-Century Art Chronicler: Sir Henry Bate Dudley, Bart.', in The Walpole Society, XIII, Oxford 1925, p. 61;. T. Borenius, 'Gainsborough's Collection of Pictures', in The Burlington Magazine, May 1944, p. 109;. 'American Colonial Mansion' and 'Thackeray on a Gainsborough', in Antique Collector, October 1995, p. 223 and 224, reproduced;. E. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, London 1958, pp. 120-121, no. 991;. K. Garlick and A. Macintyre, The Diary of Joseph Farington, London 1979, vol. IV, p. 1153;. J. Hayes, The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough, London 1982, vol. II, pp. 43-465, cat. no. 116, reproduced.. ENGRAVED:. Lithographed by Louis Marvy, for Sketches after English Landscape Paintiners, c. 1850.
