Thomas Gainsborough
The Earl of Darnley
178576 x 63.5 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Widener Collection
Provenance
Painted for the sitter, John, 4th Earl of Darnley (1767-1831), Cobham Hall, Kent
by descent to Ivo, 8th Earl of Darnley (1859-1927)
sold to P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, by 1909
purchased 1910 by M. Knoedler & Co., London
sold 21 March 1910 to Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park
gift 1942 to NGA
Other works by Thomas Gainsborough
The Hon. Frances Duncombe
c. 1777
c. 1777
Isaac Henrique Sequeira
Charles Rousseau Burney
Portrait of a Young Woman, Called Miss Sparrow
Joseph Gibbs
c.1755
c.1755