Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.

Samuel Rogers (1763–1855), by 1814;

His sale, London, Christie’s, 28 April 1856 and ff., 6^th day, lot 697, to Radcliffe for Miss Angela (later Baroness) Burdett-Coutts;

Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906);

By inheritance to her husband, William Burdett-Coutts (1851–1921);

His sale, London, Christie’s, 4 May 1922, lot 28, to Knoedler;

With Freeman, 1937;

With William Hallsborough Galleries, London,

By whom anonymously sold, London, Christie’s, 29 November 1957, lot 72, to Gordon.

Private collection, England;

By descent to the present owner. 

Mrs Jameson, Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London, London 1844, p. 408;

G.W. Fulcher, Life of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A., London 1856, p. 197;

W. Armstrong, Gainsborough & his place in English Art, London 1898, p. 204;

W. Armstrong, Gainsborough & his place in English Art, London 1904, p. 285;

W.T. Whitley, Thomas Gainsborough, London 1915, p. 256;

E. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, London 1958, no. 927;

J. Hayes, The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough, 2 vols, London 1982, vol. I, p. 228, vol. II, pp. 545–46, no. 166, reproduced.

London, British Institution, 1814, no. 6 or 10;

London, British Institution, 1863, no. 138 or 149;

London, Agnew’s, Landscapes of the 17^th and 19^th centuries, 1935, no. 11.