Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd

  • Oil on canvas
  • 20 × 30 inches · 635 × 762 mm
  • c. 1780
    Engraved: I.H. Wright, published by Longman, 2 September 1816. 

Collections

  • ‘The European Museum’, 1798; 
  • Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater (1736–1803), acquired from the above for the Bridgewater Gallery in 1798;
  • George Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of Stafford and 1st Duke of Sutherland (1758–1833), nephew of the above, by descent;
  • Francis Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800–1857), second son of the above;
  • John Egerton, 5th Earl of Ellesmere and 6th Duke of Sutherland (1915–2000), by descent;
  • The Trustees of The Ellesmere 1939 Settlement, sale Christie's, 18 June 1976, lot 119;
  • Richard Green, London acquired from the above;
  • Private collection, Switzerland to 2018;
  • Sotheby’s, London, 6th December 2018, lot 209;
  • Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd to 2019

Exhibitions

  • The European Museum, 1798;
  • London, British Institution, 1841, no. 103.

Literature

  • 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.

Dordrechts Museum, The Netherlands