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An image of The Reverend Samuel Kilderbee by Thomas Gainsborough An image of The Reverend Samuel Kilderbee by Thomas Gainsborough
Alternate image of The Reverend Samuel Kilderbee by Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough

(England 1727–02 Aug 1788)

Title
The Reverend Samuel Kilderbee
Year
circa 1770-circa 1774
Media category
Painting
Materials used
oil on canvas
Dimensions

76.2 x 63.5cm stretcher; 94.5 x 82.5 x 9.5cm frame

Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
Credit
Purchased 1966
Accession number
OB3.1967
Location
15th–19th c European art
Provenance (4)

Agnew's, London (England, estab. 1817), pre Dec 1966, London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW from Agnew's 1966. Purchased from the exhibition 'Realism and Romance in English Painting' 14 November - 10 December 1966. Jointly owned by Agnew's and Newhouse Galleries, New York. Purchased by Newhouse Galleries presumably from the executors of Jacques Guerlain.

Jacques Guerlain (France), pre 1966, France

Agnew's, London (England, estab. 1817), post 14 Jun 1929, London/England, Purchased by Agnew's from Christie's London, 14 June 1929, lot no. 45. Lent by Agnew's to the 1931 Cincinnati exhibition.

Admiral Spencer de Horsey (England), pre 14 Jun 1929, London/England, his sale Christie's London, 14 June 1929, lot no. 45.

Bibliography (8)

Peter Tomory (United Kingdom) (Author), Robert Gaston (Author), European Paintings before 1800 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1989, 20 (illus.). no. 33

Renée Free (Australia) (Author), Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, 66 (illus.).

1967 Acquisitions 1967, 1967. no. 47

Connoisseur Oct 1966, Oct 1966, (illus.). Newhouse advertisment

Agnew's, London (England, estab. 1817), Realism and romance in English painting, 1966. cat.no. 18

Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse (England, b.1905, d.1980) (Author), Gainsborough, London, 1958, 76. no. 409

The thirty-third volume of the Walpole Society 1948-1950 1953, 1953, 63.

Cincinnati Art Museum (United States of America) (Author), Exhibition of paintings and drawings by Thomas Gainsborough, R.A., United States of America, 1931, (illus.). cat.no. 17, pl. 38

Exhibition history (3)

Thomas Gainsborough, Cincinnati Art Museum, 01 May 1931–31 May 1931.

Realism and romance in English painting, Agnew's, London, 14 Nov 1966–10 Dec 1966.

Purchases and Acquisitions for 1966, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1967 -.