GAINSBOROUGH DUPONT (SUDBURY 1754-1797 LONDON) Portrait of Prince Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn (1745-1790) oil on canvas 29 7/8 x 24 3/4 in. (75.9 x 62.9 cm.) PROVENANCE: Leverhulme Sale; Anderson, New York, 17-19 February 1926, , as Thomas Gainsborough R.A. with Newhouse Galleries Inc, New York, from whom acquired in April 1958 by a member of family of, Property from an Estate; Sotheby’s, New York, 27 May 2004, (unsold). Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, Private Treaty, 27 June 2006, . The Forbes Collection at Battersea House; Lyon & Turnbull, 1 November 2011, . Prince Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn was the sixth child of Frederick, Prince of Wales (son of George II) and his wife Princess Augusta. The Prince began a naval career in 1768 reaching the rank of Admiral in 1778, although he was forbidden from assuming command. He is also credited with founding the Royal Thames Yacht Club in 1775. The club continues to operate and to acknowledge its alternative, original, name: the “Cumberland Fleet”, after Prince Henry Frederick. The Prince’s romantic relationships gave rise to notable scandal within and beyond his own lifetime. In 1767 a secret ceremony of marriage allegedly took place between the Prince and commoner Olivia Payne. Two years later, he was obliged to pay the sum of ten thousand pounds to Lord Grosvenor after a lawsuit regarding his notorious affair with Lady Grosvenor. In 1771 Prince Henry Frederick was officially married to Anne Horton; however, the daughter of an Irish peer, his wife fell short of what King George III deemed a suitable match for his brother. The Royal Marriages Act of 1772 is said to have come about as direct result of George III’s disapproval at his brother’s marriage to a commoner. Prince Henry Frederick died in 1790. Years later, in 1817, the landscape painter and novelist Olivia Serres began making claims to George III that she was the natural daughter of his brother the Prince and his alleged first wife Olivia Payne. Although no credence was ever officially given to this claim, Olivia Serres later assumed the controversial title, “Princess of Cumberland”.
GAINSBOROUGH DUPONT (SUDBURY 1754-1797 LONDON) Portrait of Prince Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn (1745-1790) oil on canvas 29 7/8 x 24 3/4 in. (75.9 x 62.9 cm.) PROVENANCE: Leverhulme Sale; Anderson, New York, 17-19 February 1926, , as Thomas Gainsborough R.A. with Newhouse Galleries Inc, New York, from whom acquired in April 1958 by a member of family of, Property from an Estate; Sotheby’s, New York, 27 May 2004, (unsold). Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, Private Treaty, 27 June 2006, . The Forbes Collection at Battersea House; Lyon & Turnbull, 1 November 2011, . Prince Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn was the sixth child of Frederick, Prince of Wales (son of George II) and his wife Princess Augusta. The Prince began a naval career in 1768 reaching the rank of Admiral in 1778, although he was forbidden from assuming command. He is also credited with founding the Royal Thames Yacht Club in 1775. The club continues to operate and to acknowledge its alternative, original, name: the “Cumberland Fleet”, after Prince Henry Frederick. The Prince’s romantic relationships gave rise to notable scandal within and beyond his own lifetime. In 1767 a secret ceremony of marriage allegedly took place between the Prince and commoner Olivia Payne. Two years later, he was obliged to pay the sum of ten thousand pounds to Lord Grosvenor after a lawsuit regarding his notorious affair with Lady Grosvenor. In 1771 Prince Henry Frederick was officially married to Anne Horton; however, the daughter of an Irish peer, his wife fell short of what King George III deemed a suitable match for his brother. The Royal Marriages Act of 1772 is said to have come about as direct result of George III’s disapproval at his brother’s marriage to a commoner. Prince Henry Frederick died in 1790. Years later, in 1817, the landscape painter and novelist Olivia Serres began making claims to George III that she was the natural daughter of his brother the Prince and his alleged first wife Olivia Payne. Although no credence was ever officially given to this claim, Olivia Serres later assumed the controversial title, “Princess of Cumberland”.
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