About the Artwork
Henry Greswolde Lewis
ca. 1776
Daniel Gardner
1750-1805
English
Unknown
Pastel and gouache on canvas
Image: 24 × 27 inches (61 × 68.6 cm) Framed: 27 × 30 1/2 × 2 1/4 inches (68.6 × 77.5 × 5.7 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Bequest of Mrs. Doris Grigaut
F79.48
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pen and ink, on wood panel, formerly inset in back of frame, upper left: Mr Lewis Inscribed, in pen and brown ink on paper, previously attached to wood panel, inset in back of frame, center: Henry Greswold | Lewis Esq. Painted | about 1776 Inscribed, in pen and black ink, on another piece of paper, previously attached to wood panel, inset in back of frame, center: Henry Greswolde Lewis | b. 1754 md. 15 May 1784 . d. o.s.p.(?) | md Honble Charlotte Bridgeman d. 1729 [sic] | By Sir Thos. Lawrence [crossed-out] | Mr Lewis was son of David Lewis & | Mary Greswolde of Malvern Hall
Provenance
probably Henry Greswold[e] Lewis (Warwickshire, Solihull, England)
by descent to Edmund Meysey Wigley Greswolde [d. 1833]
1833, by descent to Henry Wigley Greswolde
Captain Thomas Suckling (London, England)
July 2, 1909, sold by (Christie's, London, England, UK) lot 29
1909, purchased by Asher Wertheimer (London, England, UK)
Paul Le Roy Grigaut
by inheritence to his wife, Doris Grigaut [d. 1977]
1979-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Beckett, R.B. John Constable's Correspondence IV Patrons, Dealers and Fellow Artists. Suffolk, 1966, p. 77.
Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Pictures. Suckling sales cat., Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods. London, 1909, no. 29, p. 7.
Graves, A. Art Sales, London, 1918, vol. 1: p. 349.
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 244-246, no. 116.
Williamson, G.C., Daniel Gardner Painter in Pastel and Gouache, London, 1921, pp. 7, 8, 55, 72, 129, 166-167, opp. p. 6 (ill.).
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Daniel Gardner, Henry Greswolde Lewis, ca. 1776, pastel and gouache on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Doris Grigaut, F79.48.
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