Thomas Gainsborough
Portrait of an officer, traditionally identified as the future General James Wolfe (1727-1759)
Thomas Gainsborough
Portrait of an officer, traditionally identified as the future General James Wolfe (1727-1759)
77.2 x 63.4 cmOil on canvas
Sale Bonhams, London, 3 December 2014
Provenance
Said to have been painted for Wolfe's fiancé, Miss Katherine Lowther, daughter of Sir William Lowther, 1st Bt., and sister of William, 1st Earl of Lonsdale
Mr. Stultered, 1839
Mrs. Gibbons
her sale, Christie's, London, 5 May 1883, nr. 23 (215 gns. to the following)
Thomas Woolner, R.A.
sale Christie's, London, 18 May 1895, nr. 113 (520 gns. to the following)
H. Noble Pym, Foxwold Chase, Brasted, Kent, and by inheritance to
John Pym
sale Christie's, London, 14 June 1977, nr. 107, as 'Portrait of a gentleman, apparently General Wolfe' (3,750 gns. to the following)
with Spink, London, 1978
collection of the late Caesar and Ruth Pinnau
sale Bonhams, London, 3 December 2014, nr. 77
Other works by Thomas Gainsborough
Boy Driving Cows near a Pool
c.1786
c.1786
Self-Portrait
c.1758-1759
c.1758-1759
Karl Friedrich Abel
c.1765
c.1765
Portrait of an Unknown Lady with a Blue Cloak
c.1765
c.1765
David Garrick
1770
1770