The Honorable Richard Savage Nassau de Zuylestein, M.P., ca. between 1778 and 1780

  • Thomas Gainsborough, English, 1727-1788

Oil on canvas

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

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

71.169

On View

  • British, Level 3, South

Department

European Painting

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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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.