Lot 113: GAINSBOROUGH DUPONT (SUDBURY 1754-1797 LONDON) Portrait of Mrs. Samu

GAINSBOROUGH DUPONT (SUDBURY 1754-1797 LONDON) Portrait of Mrs. Samuel Kilderbee, bustlength, in a blue dress, within a painted oval oil on canvas 73.6 x 61.6 cm (29 x 24 1/4in).

Provenance Admiral Spencer de Horsey of Melcombe House, Cowes, Isle of Wight Sale, Christie’s, London, 14 June 1929, lot 46 (as Thomas Gainsborough) With W. W. Sampson and Son, London With Newhouse Galleries, New York, 1938 Mr and Mrs Kay Kimbell, Fort Worth, Texas Kimbell Art Foundation, Fort Worth, Texas, 1965 Sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 16-17 June 1976, lot 135 (as manner of Thomas Gainsborough) Private Collection, Maryland, USA Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 18 October 2000, lot 25 (as Thomas Gainsborough) Private Collection, London Exhibited Fort Worth, Texas, Carnegie Public Library, Old Masters Exhibition, 15-26 March 1935 Literature H. Comstock, The Connoisseur, September 1937, pp. 156-57, ill. p. 156. Caroline (1763-1845), was the wife of the Rev. Samuel Kilderbee (1759-1847), widow of George Waddington and the daughter of Samuel Horsey. The Rev. Samuel Kilderbee was the son of Samuel Kilderbee (1725-1813) a close friend of Thomas Gainsborough and the executor of his will.