7/21/2023 0 Comments Lady in blue dress by gainsborough103, ill., as Miss Sparrow, from the original picture in the possession of Louis Huth, an engraving by G. Engravings from the Works of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A. 227, lists a portrait of a lady in a white satin dress and blue mantle edged with fur, 21 by 26 in., in the collection of Sir W. "100 Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum," August 28–November 2, 1975, no. "100 Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum," May 22–July 27, 1975, no. "A Centenary of a Great Museum: Old Master Paintings," November 1, 1969–October 31, 1970, unnum. "Old Masters from the Metropolitan," April 24–June 30, 1949, no catalogue. "Old Masters from the Metropolitan," February 15–March 30, 1949, unnumbered cat. Memorial Union Gallery, University of Wisconsin. "Old Masters from the Metropolitan," December 1, 1948–January 23, 1949, no catalogue. "Cent portraits de femmes," April 23–July 1, 1909, no. 37 (as "Miss Sparrow," lent by Stephen G. "Aelterer Englischer Kunst," January 26–February 23, 1908, no. 85 (as "A Lady, Name Unknown," lent by Louis Huth). The resemblance between Maria Walpole and the Museum's sitter is slight at best. Maria Walpole, Duchess of Gloucester during the period in question, sat for Gainsborough twice: after her first husband’s death in 1763, as the widowed Countess Waldegrave (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), and in the 1770s, as the Duchess of Gloucester (Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati). The title Duchess of Gloucester was added to some of these copies, possibly in order to make them more salable. Szarvasy, London (sold 1948 see Baetjer 2009 for further details). Pfungst, London (sold 1917) Pembroke Galleries, Bristol (in 1918) and Frederick A. Copies are recorded in the following collections: William W. The soft, feathery touch and pastel palette, as well as the rather generic costume, suggest a date in the 1770s. The sitter is first identified as Miss Sparrow, of whom nothing further is known, in an engraving of 1870 by G.
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