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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788; Portraits I-K

Catalogue reference: EKW/1/128

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EKW/1/128
Title
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788; Portraits I-K
Date
[1920s-1985]
Description

Includes:

-letter from Mrs E. E. Gardner, Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17 January 1967, concerning a portrait of Mrs Ralph Izard

-leter from Anna Rutlege, undated, concerning a portrait of a member of the Izard family

-letter from R.G. McIntyre, Sorn Castle, dated 7 June 1973, concerning a portrait of Jackson of Exeter. Also includes a letter from Robin Mackinton-Young, Windsor Castle; photocopy of the Jackson family tree; a photocopy of a memorandum by Lord Sorn; a note by Lord Sorn and the transcription of an extract from the published reminiscences of David Scott Moncreiff, all concerning the Jackson portrait

-letter from J.G. McIntyre, Sorn Castle, dated 9 February 1975, concerning a portrait of Jackson of Exeter. Also includes a copy of a memorandum by Lord Sorn, a photocopy of a letter from Margaret Elmsley, dated 27 February 1877 and photocopy of a letter from Robert Scott Moncrieff, all concerning the Jackson portrait

-Mather, Frank Jewett Jnr (1945) 'A Gainsborough Portrait', Record of the Museum of Historic Art Princeton University, Volume IV, no.1, Spring 1956, p9

-'Gainsborough's Portraits of the Kilderbee family', Connoisseur, Sept 1937, p53

-letter from William Ware, William Ware Gallery, dated 2 February 1968, concerning a portrait Samuel Kilderbee

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Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Language
English
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1 file (43 images; 8 letters; 2 memorandums; 2 journal articles; 1 transcription; 1 family tree)
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Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788; Portraits I-K