Title
Samuel Kilderbee
circa 1758
partially repainted circa 1783
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- The Reverend Samuel Kilderbee (1725-1813)
- Dates
- circa 1758
partially repainted circa 1783 - Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.3 x 63.7 cm stretcher; 94.5 x 82.5 x 9.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1966
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- OB3.1967
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Thomas Gainsborough
Works in the collection
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Exhibition history
Shown in 6 exhibitions
Thomas Gainsborough, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, 01 May 1931–31 May 1931
Realism and romance in English painting, Agnew's, London, London, 14 Nov 1966–10 Dec 1966
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1966, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Apr 1967–07 May 1967
European Old Masters 16th-19th Century from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, , 28 Sep 2017–03 Dec 2017
Archie Plus, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 26 Sep 2020–07 Mar 2021
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 19 publications
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Agnew's, London, Realism and romance in English painting, 1966, p 12, no 18.
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Anon., Times, no 45230, 'The sale room – Gainsborough and Wilson – Gainsborough's Kilderbee portraits', 15 Jun 1929, p 11.
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Anon., Scotsman, no 26848, 'London salerooms – ₤6720 for Wilson picture', 15 Jun 1929, p 15.
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Anon., Burlington Magazine, vol 59, no 341, 'The Gainsborough exhibition in Cincinnati reviewed', London, Aug 1931, pp 85–87, 90–912=: p 86.
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Anon., Art Gallery of New South Wales Quarterly, vol 9, no 4, 'Acquisitions for 1968', Sydney, Jul 1968, pp 409–10: p 410, illus p 412.
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Hugh Belsey, Thomas Gainsborough. The portraits, fancy pictures and copies after old masters, 2 vols, New Haven, 2019, vol 1, p 510, no 539, col illus p 511, x-ray illus p 511, fig 539.1.
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Cincinnati Art Museum, Exhibition of paintings and drawings by Thomas Gainsborough, R.A., United States of America, 1931, p 25, no 17, illus pl 38.
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Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, p 66, illus p 66.
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Ellis Kirkham, Walpole Society, vol 33 (1948–50), 'Preliminary check list of portraits by Thomas Gainsborough', Oxford, 1953, p 63, no 2.
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Peter Tomory and Robert Gaston, European Paintings before 1800 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1989, p 20, no 33, illus p 20.
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Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse, Gainsborough, London, 1958, p 76, no 409.
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W T Whitley, Times, no 45233, 'The sale room – Gainsborough's Kilderbee portraits [letter]', 19 Jun 1929, p 13.
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Catalogue of...old pictures...the property of Admiral Spencer de Horsey, removed from Melcombe House, Cowes..., London, 14 Jun 1929, p 15, no 45.
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Burlington Magazine, vol 56, no 327, London, Jun 1930, adv p xlix.
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1967 Acquisitions, Sydney, 1967, p 35, no 47.
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Art and Australia, vol 10, no 1, Art Gallery of New South Wales special number, Sydney, Jul 1972, pp 63–75: p 63.
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Old and modern masters in the New York art market from the collections of leading New York dealers, New York, 1931, p 5.
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Connoisseur, vol 163, London, Oct 1966, illusadv p lxxix. Newhouse Galleries advertisement.
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Burlington Magazine, vol 56, no 326, London, May 1930, adv p liii.
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Provenance
Admiral de Horsey, pre 14 Jun 1929, London/England, his sale Christie's London, 14 June 1929, lot no. 45.
Agnew's, London, 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.
Jacques Guerlain, pre 1966, France
Agnew's, London, 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.
