Lot 27: ATTRIBUTED TO GAINSBOROUGH DUPONT (SUDBURY 1754-1797 LONDON) Portrait of Nathaniel Burrough (1723-1794), half-length, in a dark blue naval jacket with golden buttons, in a painted oval,

ATTRIBUTED TO GAINSBOROUGH DUPONT (SUDBURY 1754-1797 LONDON) Portrait of Nathaniel Burrough (1723-1794), half-length, in a dark blue naval jacket with golden buttons, in a painted oval, Oil on canvas, 76 by 63.5 cm.
Provenance: Ms. Nathaniel Burrough.
General Thomas Fenn Addison, 1830.
R. Gainsborough Dupont, 1856.
Ms. Josephine Savill.
Mr. Wylie, 1893.
Mr. George Hearn, 1896.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Literature: E. Waterhouse, Gainsborough , London 1985, p. 57, no. 101 (as Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catalogue of Paintings , New York 1931, p. 128, no. G12-2.
W. Armstrong, Gainsborough & his place in English art , New York 1898, p. 192.