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Portrait of Thomas Gainsborough

Maker

(Artists)
1727-1788

Completed by
(Artists)
1754-1797

Title

Date of Production

Late 1760s

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 76.6 cm (canvas)
Width: 63.5 cm (canvas)

Accession Number

P.1932.SC.100

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1932

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

On display

Keywords

Label Text

The identity of the painter of this portrait had long been uncertain. However, recent research by Courtauld students revealed that the face was most likely painted by Thomas Gainsborough himself, when he was in his forties. Left unfinished at his death, the work was completed by his nephew and close collaborator, Gainsborough Dupont. Dupont altered the wig and added a jacket copied from his uncle’s most famous self-portrait, now at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

Provenance

Samuel Courtauld Gift 1932

Exhibition History

Gainsborough's Family Album, National Portrait Gallery, London and Princeton University Art Museum, 15/11/2018-05/06/2019; National Portrait Gallery, 22/11/2018-03/02/2019; Princeton University Art Museum, 23/02/2019-09/06/2019

The Second Hand Re-worked: Art Then and Now, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2015-19/07/2015

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