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THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH R.A. (SUDBURY 1727-1788 LONDON)
Portrait of John Campbell Viscount Glenorchy (1738-1771), three-quarter-length, in a green jacket with gilt embroidery
oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm.)
inscribed 'John Lord Glenorchy / ano 1762 married ano 1765 / Willielma Maxwell Daughter / & Co-hiress of Willm Maxwell / of Preston in the Stewardry / of Kirkcudbright Esq.r' (lower right)
Provenance
Commissioned by the sitter’s father, John Campbell 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland (1692-1782), and by iheritance to his third cousin,
John, 4th Earl and 1st Marquess of Breadalbane, FRS. (1762-1834), Taymouth Castle, Perthshire; by descent to his son,
John, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane KT, FRS, PSA, PBA (1796-1862), and by inheritance to his elder sister,
Lady Elizabeth Campbell (1794–1878), wife of Sir John Pringle, 5th Bt, Langton House, Duns, and by descent to her daughter,
Mary Gavin Pringle, (1832-1911), wife of Major The Hon. Robert Baillie Hamilton (1828-1891), and by inheritance to her sister,
Magdelina Breadalbane Pringle (1836-1913), wife of Sir Robert Bateson Harvey, 1st Bt (1825-1887) and by inheritance to her godson and first cousin twice-removed,
Lt Col. The Hon. Thomas Morgan-Grenville-Gavin (1891-1965), grandfather of the present owner.Literature
H. Belsey, Thomas Gainsborough The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies after Old Masters, New Haven and London 2019, I, pp. 396–397, no. 400, illustrated.Special notice
Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.