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A Woodman Seated on a Bundle of Faggots
Thomas Gainsborough · 1787
Provenance
Ownership history
- Guy Bellingham Smith [Hayes 1970]. Henry J. Pfungst; sold, Christie's, June 15, 1917, Pfungst sale, lot 44, to Sir George Donaldson [Hayes 1970]. Henry Schniewind, Jr., by June 1934 [Siple 1934]; sold, Sotheby's, May 25, 1938, Schniewind sale, lot 141, to Colnaghi [Hayes 1970]; to J. Leslie Wright [Hayes 1970]; by descent to his daughter, Mrs. Cecil Keith, by 1955-at least 1970 [Grigson 1955; Hayes 1970]. Leger Galleries, London, from 1988 [Leger Galleries 1992]; sold to the Art Institute, 1993.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Cincinnati Art Museum, "Paintings and Drawings by Thomas Gainsborough," 1931, no. 74.
- Aldeburgh Festival, "Drawings by Thomas Gainsborough," 1949, no. 36.
- London, Royal Academy, "Masters of British Watercolor: The Leslie J. Wright Collection," October-November 1949, no. 78.
- London, Arts Council, "Thomas Gainsborough," 1951, cat. 72.
- Bath, Victoria Art Gallery, "Paintings and Drawings by Thomas Gainsborough," 1951, cat. 72 (49?).
- London, Tate Gallery, "The Romantic Movement," 1959, cat. 699.
- London, Arts Council, "Gainsborough Drawings," 1960-1961, cat. 63.
- London, Tate Gallery, "Thomas Gainsborough," 1980-1981, cat. 46.
- Worthing Art Gallery, "English Watercolor Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Cecil Keith," March 1963.
- London, Agnew and Sons, "The Watercolour Collection formed by Mrs. Cecil Keith," May 1984, cat. 6.
- London, Leger Galleries, "British Painting," 4 May-2 June 1989, cat. 7.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "In Context: Recent Acquisitions to the Regenstein Collection, Thomas Gainsborough and Eighteenth-century Portraits of the Common Man," 20 February-28 April 1995.
Literature
Published references
- E. S. Siple, "Gainsborough Drawings: The Schniewind Collection," The Connoisseur (June 1934), pp. 356-357 (ill.).
- Geoffrey Grigson, English Drawing (London, 1955), p. 175 (ill.).
- Adrian Bury, "Old English Water-Colours and Drawings in the Collection of Mrs. Cecil Keith," Old Watercolour Society Club XLII (1967), p. 10 (ill.).
- John Hayes, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough (London, 1970), no. 852 (ill.).
- John Hayes, The Landscape Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough (1982), vol. I, p. 178, vol. II, pp. 571-572 (ill.).
- Leger Galleries, A Century of Art Dealing 1892-1992 (London, 1992), pp. 80-81 (ill).
- "Maineri to Miró; The Regenstein Collection Since 1975," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26 (2000), pp. 60-61 (ill.).
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh, "‘A Lasting Monument:’ The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), pp. 12-13.
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