Thomas Gainsborough (artist) British, 1727 - 1788 Mountain Landscape with Bridge, c. 1783/1784 oil on canvas Overall: 113 x 133.4 cm (44 1/2 x 52 1/2 in.) framed: 146.7 x 167.6 cm (57 3/4 x 66 in.) Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1937.1.107

From the Tour: Britain's Royal Academy of Art in the Late 1700s and Early 1800s
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Provenance

Mrs. Thomas Gainsborough; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 10-11 April 1797, 2nd day, no. 69);[1] Sir John Fleming Leicester [1762-1827], Bt., later 1st baron de Tabley [1762-1827], Tabley House, Cheshire. Lady Lindsay;[2] purchased by (Asher Wertheimer, London). Sir Edgar Vincent, Bt., later 1st viscount D'Abernon [1857-1941], Esher and Stoke D'Abernon, Surrey, by 1912. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris), by 1926;[3] purchased 26 April 1937 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA.

[1] The description in the catalogue is printed in M. G. Speilmann, "A Note on Gainsborough and Gainsborough Dupont," The Walpole Society 5 (1917), 97.

[2] Possibly Jeanne, Countess of Lindsay [d. 1897], of Kilconquhar House, Fife [Scotland], and Queen's Gate, London, who was married to John Trottner, 10th earl of Lindsay.

[3] Duveen loaned the painting to and exhibition in Detroit in 1926.

Associated Names

• Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
• Duveen Brothers, Inc.
• Duveen Brothers, Inc.
• Gainsborough, Thomas, Mrs.
• Leicester, Bt., and 1st Baron de Tabley, Sir John Fleming
• Lindsay, Lady
• Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
• Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon, Edgar, Sir
• Wertheimer, Asher

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