The Honorable Richard Savage Nassau de Zuylestein, M.P.

ca. between 1778 and 1780

Thomas Gainsborough English, 1727-1788

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British, Level 3, South Wing

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Title The Honorable Richard Savage Nassau de Zuylestein, M.P.

Artwork Date ca. between 1778 and 1780

Artist Thomas Gainsborough

Life Dates 1727-1788

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. English

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 94 1/8 × 61 3/4 inches (239.1 × 156.8 cm) Framed: 102 3/8 × 68 3/8 × 4 3/4 inches (260 × 173.7 × 12.1 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 71.169

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Arthur Chichester, First Marquess of Donegall [d. 1799] (Fisherwick near Lichfield, Staffordshire, England)

by descent to his third son, Lord Spencer Stanley Chichester [d. 1819] (Dunbrody Park, Arthurstown, Co. Wexford, Ireland)

by descent to his son, Arthur Chichester, first Baron Templemore [d. 1837] (Dunbrody Park, Arthurstown, Co. Wexford, Ireland)

by descent to his son, Henry Spencer Chichester, second Baron Templemore [d. 1906] (Dunbrody Park, Arthurstown, Co. Wexford, Ireland)

by descent to his son, Arthur Henry Chichester, third Baron Templemore [d. 1924] (Dunbrody Park, Arthurstown, Co. Wexford, Ireland)

by descent to his son, Arthur Claude Spencer Chichester, fourth Baron Templemore

ca. 1925, sold through Arthur Ruck (?)

ca. 1925, purchased by (Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA)

1935, acquired by Anna Thomson Dodge [Mrs. Horace E. Dodge] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1971-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Shaw., Rev. Stebbing. The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire: Compiled from the Manuscripts of Huntbach, Loxdale, Bishop Lyttelton, and Other Collections... 1798-1801, vol. 1. p. 369.

Catalogue of Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French, and English Masters with Which the Proprietors Have Favoured the Institution. Exh. cat., British Institution. London, 1859, no. 131, 158, or 161.

Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School. Exh. cat., Royal Academy. London, 1877, no. 94.

"Old Masters and Deceased British Painters," (first notice). The Athenaeum, no. 2567 (January 6, 1877): pp. 23-25.

"Old Masters and Deceased British Painters," (third notice). The Athenaeum, no. 2569 (January 20, 1877) pp. 86-87.

The Second Loan Exhibition of Old Masters British Paintings of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1926 (unpaginated), cat.

7 (ill.).

Armstrong, W. Gainsborough and His Place in English Art. New York, 1898, p. 197. [as James, Fifth Duke of Hamilton.]

Menpes Mortimer, and J. Greig, Gainsborough. London, 1909, pp. 84-85.

Graves, A. A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813-1912, 1913, vol. 1, pl. 375, 382.

"A Catalogue of Works of Art in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge." Bulletin of the DIA (1939): p. xv, n.p. (ill.).

Waterhouse, E.K. "Preliminary Check List of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough." Walpole Society 33 (1953): pp. 29-30; 53.

Waterhouse, E.K.Gainsborough. London, 1958, p. 72, no. 337, pl.199.

Hayes, J. "Some Unknown Early Gainsborough Portraits." BM CVII, no. 743 (February 1965): 70, pls. 17-18.

Winokur, R. "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 50 (1971): pp. 43-51.

Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 7 (1971): pp. 46-47 (ill.).

Hayes, J. The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough. New Haven and London, 1971, p. 23, 35, 42-3, 56, 113, pl. 319-322.

"La Chronique des Arts." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 79 (1972) p. 98 (fig. 346).

Hayes, J. Gainsborough Paintings and Drawings. London,1975, pl. 42-43, 53, 82-3 note 35.

Dell, T., et al. The Dodge Collection of 18th Century French and English Art in the Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1996, pp. 211-215, cat. 66 (ill.).

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Thomas Gainsborough, The Honorable Richard Savage Nassau de Zuylestein, M.P., ca. between 1778 and 1780, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.169.