Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788; Portraits W-Z

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 3010 EKW/1/136
  • Dates of Creation
      [1920s-1985]
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      1 file (78 images; 12 letters; 1 photocopy of a newspaper article; two statements; 2 summary descriptions; 1 transcript of an original letter)

Scope and Content

Includes:

-letter from William O. Petersen, dated 16 August 1978, concerning an unidentified portrait. Also includes a piece of the canvas from the picture.

-letter from the National Portrait Gallery, dated 5 March 1965, concerning a portrait of the three ladies Waldegrave

-summary description of a portrait of Lady Horatia Waldegrave

-letter from Peter Bard, Latchingdon Hall, dated 21 May 1953, concerning a portrait of Joseph Walters

-letter from Basil Ringrose, dated 14 September 1947, concerning a portrait of William Ward

-letter from Barry Thomas, dated 13 November 1973, concerning a portrait of Nat. Webb

-letter from Evelyn C. Miller, dated 10 August 1968, concerning a portrait of Dr Gilbert White. Also includes photocopies of a newspaper article entitled 'Rumson Engineer's portrait may be a real Gainsborough'; two statements about the picture made by Jeremiah O'Connor, curator of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington & by Thomas Macoughtry Judson, Quondam Curator, Collection of the Vatican; and a summary description of the portrait (3pp)

-transcript of an extract of a letter from John Wilkinson to Boulton & Watt, dated 12 November 1776, concerning an invention offered to Gainsborough

-letter from Sidney Sabin, Sabin Galleries, dated 23 July 1965, concerning a portrait of Mr Wood the violinist

-two letters from Rollo Charles, Museum of Wales, dated 11 January 1953 & 17 March 1955, concerning a portraits of members of the Wynne family

-letter from Charles Mott-Radclyffe, House of Commons, dated 5 June 1957, concerning a portrait f Stephen White and a portrait of the Duchess of Cleveland said to be by Reynolds

-letter from J.C. Quilter, Gooden & Fox Ltd., dated 15 December 1960, concerning an unidentified portrait

-letter from Therese Heymen, Head of Photography & Prints, Oakland Art Museum, dated 5 June 1967, concerning a portrait of Thomas Walker

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