THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. | PORTRAIT OF PHILIP DEHANY WITH HIS WIFE MARGARET AND THEIR DAUGHTER MARY, FULL LENGTH, IN AN INTERIOR

Property from a Distinguished American Collection
THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A.
Sudbury 1727-1788 London
PORTRAIT OF PHILIP DEHANY WITH HIS WIFE MARGARET AND THEIR DAUGHTER MARY, FULL LENGTH, IN AN INTERIOR

oil on canvas
94 by 58 in.; 238.5 by 147 cm.

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Condition Report:
The following condition report has been provided by Simon Parkes of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc. 502 East 74th St. New York, NY 212-734-3920, simonparkes@msn.com, an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's. This work has been restored and could be hung in its current condition. However, the varnish is quite glossy. Although it illuminates the darker colors, it could be softened slightly. Close examination with the naked eye reveals a very healthy paint layer. The lively applications of crimson glazes throughout the dress of the mother are in beautiful condition. There is no damage to this area. Some of Gainsborough's drawing lines are clearly visible in the dress, but this is all original. Some cracking and slight thinness in the left side of the mother's face have been well retouched. The child is in similarly good condition, showing no retouches in her dress, and only a spot or two in her right hand and a few isolated dots in the lower part of her face. In the father, there are only small spots of retouching in his forehead and mouth, and a couple of restorations in his chin. There is a 2 by 1 inch restoration in the left cuff of his coat. There is a restoration above his head, and another group in the curtains in the upper left. The rug on which they are standing is in beautiful condition. The original varnish is quite milky under ultraviolet light, and there may be restorations in the background and darker colors of coat and trousers of the father that cannot be identified under ultraviolet light.

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Provenance:
Philip Dehany (1733-1809), the sitter;

By descent to the child in the portrait, Mary Dehany (1759-1832);

By descent to her adopted daughter, Wilhelmina Traill;

By descent to her brother, Col. James C. Traill;

His anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 29 May 1880, lot 117, where unsold;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 27 May 1882, lot 128, where unsold;

with Lesser, London, 1885;

with Sir John Charles Robinson (1824-1913), London ;

From whom acquired by Agnew's, London, in July 1885;

There acquired by Sir Julian Goldsmid, 3rd Bt (1838-1896), on 4 May 1889;

His sale, London, Christie's, 13 June 1896, lot 66, where acquired by Tooth;

Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson, Bt (1840-1929);

His sale, London, Christie's, 6 July 1923, lot 5, where unsold;

By descent to his daughter, Princess Ida Labia (1879-1961);

By descent to the Palace Foundation;

Their sale, London, Sotheby's, 16 November 1988, lot 59, where acquired by Leger Galleries;

There acquired by the present collector.