Thomas Gainsborough (artist) British, 1727 - 1788 Master John Heathcote, c. 1771/1772 oil on canvas Overall: 127 x 101.2 cm (50 x 39 13/16 in.) framed: 159.4 x 133.3 cm (62 3/4 x 52 1/2 in.) Given in memory of Governor Alvan T. Fuller by The Fuller Foundation, Inc. 1961.2.1 |
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Provenance
Painted for the sitter's parents, John [d. 1795] and Lydia [d. 1822] Heathcote, Conington Castle, Huntingdonshire; by descent to their great-grandson, John Moyer Heathcote [1834-1912];purchased 1913 from the Heathcote estate by (Thos. Agnew & Sons), London, who sold it the same year to (Duveen Brothers), London,[1] who sold it c. 1913 to Herbert, 1st Baron Michelham [1851-1919], Hellingly, Sussex (sale, Hampton & Sons, on the premises, 20 Arlington Street, London, 23-24 November 1926, 2nd day, no. 292, repro.), bought by (Captain Jefferson Davis Cohn), Paris,[2] on behalf of (Duveen Brothers), London, who sold it March or April 1927 to Alvan T. Fuller [1878-1958], Boston;[3] The Fuller Foundation, Boston; gift to NGA, 1961.
[1]] Agnew stock books, recorded by The Provenance Index, J. Paul Getty Trust, Santa Monica. [2] The Getty Provenance Index records Cohn as the buyer at the Michelham sale. See also Colin Simpson, The Artful Partners: The Secret Association of Bernard Berenson and Joseph Duveen (London, 1987), 179-180, for an account of Cohn's part in the sale. [3] An undated note in the NGA curatorial files records a telephone conversation between Ross Watson and Peter Fuller, son of Alvan T. Fuller, who said that his father purchased this painting in England, probably at Thomas Agnew & Sons in July 1927. However, the late Sir Geoffrey Agnew, in Agnew's 1817-1967 (London, 1967), 49, states that Governor Fuller of Boston was a faithful Agnew's client, that they acted on his behalf at many auctions, and that the only picture he ever bought from Duveen was a Gainsborough that Agnew's had failed to buy for him at the Michelham sale.
Associated Names
- Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
- Cohn, Jefferson Davis, Captain
- Duveen Brothers, Inc.
- Duveen Brothers, Inc.
- Fuller, Alvan T.
- Fuller Foundation, Inc.
- Heathcote, John and Lydia
- Heathcote, John Moyer
- Sale, London
- Stern, 1st Baron Michelham, Herbert, Sir
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