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ID number: BIRBI-46.9 Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Artist / Maker: Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Title / Object name: Portrait of the Hon. Harriott Marsham Object type: Painting Culture: British Date made: late 1770s Materials: Oil on canvas Measurements: 75 x 61 cm (unframed) 94.5 x 81.5 x 6.5 cm (framed) Provenance: Collection of H.S. Marsham-Townshend of Scadbury Park, Chislehurst, 1946, with whose family it had remained since it was painted; purchased at Christie's, 12 Kuly 1946 (lot 65). |
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Harriot Marsham (1721-1796) was the unmarried daughter of the first Baron Romney. Gainsborough produced this commissioned portrait of her in her fifties, shortly after his move from Bath to London in 1774. It is painted on a standard size canvas of 30 by 25 inches for which he commonly charged 25 guineas. Typically, for such an intimate portrait, the half-length figure is framed in a fictive stone oval. Notes: Exhibited: Canterbury, Tower House, Old Masters from Houses in Kent, 1937 (55). |
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| Gainsborough, Thomas British 1727 1788 | |
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| Gainsborough Waterhouse, E. K. 1958 | |
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