Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Fletcher (1749-1852), half-length, in a white dress and brown fringed shawl, feigned oval

Details

Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (1727-1788)
Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Fletcher (1749-1852), half-length, in a white dress and brown fringed shawl, feigned oval
oil on canvas
29¾ x 245/8 in. (75.5 x 62.7cm.)

Provenance

K.D. Maclachlan; Robinson and Fisher, 27 June 1912, lot 171 (sold to Wallis).
with Newhouse Galleries, New York, 1985.

Literature

E.K. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, London, 1958, p. 67, no. 259.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Waterhouse suggested that this picture is the companion to Gainsborough's portrait of Colonel Thomas Fletcher (Waterhouse, op.cit., no 258), of the same format, which he dated to the artist's later Bath period.

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