Master Paintings Part I

Master Paintings Part I

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 153. Portrait of Edward Richard Gardiner.

Property of a Private Collector, New York

Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.

Portrait of Edward Richard Gardiner

Auction Closed

January 26, 05:50 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private Collector, New York

Thomas Gainsborough R.A.

Sudbury 1727 - 1788 London

Portrait of Edward Richard Gardiner


oil on canvas

canvas: 14½by 12½in.; 36.8 by 31.8 cm.

framed: 21½ by 19½ in.; 54.6 by 49.5 cm.

Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 25 June 1904, lot 52 (for £78.15s);
There acquired by Colnaghi, London;
Charles T. D. Crews (1839–1915), Billingbear Park, Berkshire;
His posthumous sale, London, Christie’s, 1 July 1915, lot 100;
With Knoedler, New York, 1920;
With John Levy, New York;
Private collection, USA.
K. Waterhouse, ‘Preliminary Check-List of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough’, in Walpole Society, vol. XXXIII, 1953, p. 46;
K. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, London 1958, p. 100, cat. no. 776;            
H. Belsey, Thomas Gainsborough: The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies after Old Masters, New Haven and London 2019, vol. 2, p. 1013, cat. no. R.14. 
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Spring Exhibition, March–May 1906, no. 73.