Portrait of Christopher Griffith, Jr., of Padworth , half-length, in a blue coat

Details

Thomas Gainsborough (Sudbury 1727-1788 London)
Portrait of Christopher Griffith, Jr., of Padworth , half-length, in a blue coat
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)

Provenance

Major Darby-Griffith.
Lord Roundway, 1933.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 23 July 1954, lot 69 to Agnew's.
Mr. I. Austin Kelly, III, by whom given to the present owner.

Literature

E. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, London, 1958, p. 71, no. 329.

Special notice

This lot is exempt from Sales Tax.

Sale room notice

We are grateful to Mr. Hugh Belsey, who will be including the present
portrait in his forthcoming catalogue raisonné, for noting that the
provenance of the present work should read as follows and not as stated in the catalogue:
J.G. Couper; Morrison, McChlery and Company, Glasgow, 29 June 1956.
Please note the following additional literature:
Connoisseur, CXXXVIII, November 1956, p. 194.

Lot Essay

The sitter, whose family had inherited the manor of Padworth, near Reading, was M.P. for Berkshire in 1774-6 and married Katherine (1729-1801) daughter and co-heiress of Sir William St. Quintin, Bart. Dated by Waterhouse to the early 1760s, this portrait of Christopher Griffith Jr. (1731-76) was painted at around the same time as a companion portrait of his wife and father (op. cit., nos. 328 & 330).

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