Details
Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. (1727-1788)
Portrait of Dorothea, Lady Eden, seated half-length, in a blue dress and grey wrap, her hands resting on an open book
29¾ x 24¾in. (75.5 x 63cm.)
Provenance
probably painted for Sir John Eden, 4th Bt.
probably Sir Robert Johnson-Eden, 5th Bt., of Windlestone Hall, County Durham
Sir Julius Goldsmith, Bt., M.P.; Christie's, 13 June 1896, lot 65, (5,000 gns. to Agnew's)
Charles Wertheimer, London, 1913
Mrs. John Simpson, New York, 1915
Duveen Bros., New York
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred W. Erickson; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15 November 1961, lot 20 (sold $35,000)
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 11 July 1990, lot 56 (sold #68,000)
Literature
Sir W. Armstrong, Gainsborough and his Place in English Art, 1898, p. 194
Lord R.N.S. Gower, Thomas Gainsborough, 1903, p. 20
W.B. Boulton, Thomas Gainsborough and his Life, Work, Friends and Sitters, 1907, p. 102
International Studio, August 1928, p. 61, repro.
E.K. Waterhouse, 'Preliminary Checklist of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough', Walpole Society, vol. XXXIII, 1953, p. 35
E.K. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, 1958, p. 65, no. 230
