Lady Anne Hamilton

ca. 1778

Thomas Gainsborough English, 1727-1788

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British, Level 3, South Wing

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Title Lady Anne Hamilton

Artwork Date ca. 1778

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: 93 1/4 × 60 7/8 inches (236.9 × 154.6 cm) Framed: 101 7/8 × 68 1/2 × 4 3/4 inches (258.8 × 174 × 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. 71.170

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Provenance

Arthur Chichester, First Marqueses of Donegall [d. 1/5/1799] (Fisherwick near Lichfield, Staffordshire, United Kingdom)

1799, by descent to his third son, Lord Spencer Stanley Chichester [d. 2/22/1819] (Dunbrody Park, Arthurstown, Wexford County, United Kingdom)

1819, by descent to his son, Henry Spencer Chichester, second Baron Templemore [d. 6/10/1906] (Dunbrody Park, Arthurstown, Wexford County, United Kingdom)

1906, by descent to his son, Arthur Henry Chichester, third Baron Templemore [d. 9/28/1924] (Dunbrody Park, Arthurstown, Wexford County, United Kingdom)

1924, by descent to his son, Arthur Claude Spencer Chichester, fourth Baron Templemore

ca. 1925, sold through Arthur Ruck (?) to (Duveen Brothers, dealer, New York, New York, USA)

1935, acquired by Anna Thomson Dodge (Arthurstown, Wexford County, United Kingdom)

collection 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 of Dr. Wilkes, the Rev. T. Feilde, vol. 1. London, 1798, p. 369.

Old Masters and Deceased British Painters. Exh. cat, the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition (first notice.) London, 1877, pp. 23-25, no. 2567.

Old Masters and Deceased British Painters. Exh. cat, the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition (third notice.) London, 1877, pp. 86-87, no. 2569.

Armstrong, W. Gainsborough and His Place in English Art. New York, 1898, p. 197.

Menpes, Mortimer and James Greig. Gainsborough. Adam and Charles Black: London, 1909, p. 84-85.

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. 4 (lent by Joseph Duveen, NYC.)

Catalogue of Works of Art in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge, vol. 1. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1939.

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.

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

"La Chronique des Arts." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 79 (1972): 98, fig. 347.

Cummings, Frederick, ed. Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1979, p. 83, no. 53 (ill.).

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. 208-211, cat. 65, repr.

Wissman, F. European vistas, cultural landscapes. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2000, pp. 95, 97, repr.

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Thomas Gainsborough, Lady Anne Hamilton, ca. 1778, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.170.