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Thomas Gainsborough (artist) British, 1727 - 1788 Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1785-1787 oil on canvas overall: 219.7 x 153.7 cm (86 1/2 x 60 1/2 in.) framed: 251.5 x 185.4 x 14 cm (99 x 73 x 5 1/2 in.) Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1937.1.92 Not on View |
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Provenance
Mrs. Edward Bouverie [1750-1825], a friend of the sitter, Delapré Abbey, Northampton; by descent to General Everard Bouverie [1789-1871]; (his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 2 March 1872, no. 110); purchased by Alfred de Rothschild [1842-1918] for his father, Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild [1808-1879], Gunnersbury, Middlesex; by inheritance to his son, Nathaniel, 1st lord Rothschild [1840-1915]; his widow, Emma, Lady Rothschild; her nephew, Nathaniel Mayer Victor, called Victor, 3rd baron and later 3rd lord Rothschild [1910-1990];[1] sold c. 1936 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased 26 April 1937 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA.
[1] Details of the Rothschild family inheritance were kindly provided by Michael Hall, curator to Edmund de Rothschild; see his letter of 27 February 2002, in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
- Bouverie, Edward
- Bouverie, Edward, Mrs.
- Bouverie, Everard William, General
- Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
- Duveen Brothers, Inc.
- Duveen Brothers, Inc.
- Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
- Rothschild, Lionel Nathan de, Baron
- Rothschild, Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron
- Rothschild, Nathaniel Mayer, 1st Baron
- Rothschild, Nathaniel Mayer Victor, 3rd Baron
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