Sir Andrew Fountaine

1. Probably Richard Gipps (died 1743), West Harling Hall, Norfolk. Sir Edmund Nugent, Bt. (died 1928), West Harling Hall, Norfolk by 1908 [Duleep Singh 1927 descibed it as a portrait of Sir Andrew Fountaine attributed to Richardson]; the portrait, which had been extended on all sides and installed within a carved chimneypiece, passed with the house to the Government Forestry Commission [according to a letter dated 5 December 1933 from Frank Surgey to Bessie Bennett in curatorial file, Department of European Decorative Arts]. Acton, Surgey, London by 1931 [letter cited above and Connoisseur 1931]; sold with the chimneypiece to the Antiquarian Society for presentation to the Art Institute, 1933 (added strips removed from the painting in 1964/65 conservation treatment).

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, Christie’s, Art Treasures Exhibition, organized by the British Antique Dealers’ Association, 1932, no. 248.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years 1977, no. 325, as British School, Portrait of Richard Gipps (see also under no. 136 of this catalogue)

• Prince Frederick Duleep Singh, Portraits in Norfolk Houses, ed. by the Rev. Edmund Farrer, vol. 1 (Norwich, 1927), p. 216, no. 16.
• Connoisseur 88 (December 1931), p. vii, ill.
• Bessie Bennett, “A New Setting for Decorative Arts, Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 30, 1(1936), ill., cover and p. 7.
• Art Institute of Chicago, English Doorways and Architectural Woodwork of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1940), n. p. (ill.).
• The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, A Pictorial Review of Notable Objects in Its Collection and Notes on the Society’s Aims and History (Chicago, 1951), n.p. (ill.).
• Helen Comstock, “The Connoisseur in America--Work of the Antiquarian Society of Chicago”, The Connoisseur 130 (October 1952), p. 148.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 59.
• Malcolm Warner in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1996), pp. 284-88, ill.
• Joseph McMinn, “Images of devotion: Swift and portraits,” Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies. The Journal of the Irish Georgian Society 8 (2005), p. 164, fig. 2.

Head of Bearded Man Looking Upwards

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Self-Portrait

Art Institute of Chicago

Un Cativo

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Head of a Man (recto); Head of a Woman (verso)

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Isaac Richardson

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Eve

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The Crucifixion

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Susanna Surprised by the Elders, from The Story of Susanna

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