About the Artwork
Portrait of Mrs. E.B.
1741
Francis Kyte
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English
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 30 × 26 inches (76.2 × 66 cm) Framed: 38 3/4 × 33 5/8 × 1 1/2 inches (98.4 × 85.4 × 3.8 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund
57.255
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, left center: F Kyte Pinxt | 1741
Inscribed, upper left: EB | Ae 72 | AD1741
Provenance
May 6, 1933, auction (Robinson and Fisher, London, England)
1933-1955, purchased by Francis Howard (United Kingdom)
November 26, 1955, auctioned by (Christie's, London, England), lot 78
1955-1957, purchased by (P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, England)
1957-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Waterhouse, E. K. "Preliminary Checklist of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough," Walpole Society, vol. 33 (1953): p. 42 [as Mrs. John Gainsborough by Gainsborough].
Nicholson, B. "Old Masters at Colnaghi's," Burlington Magazine, vol. 98, no. 637 (1956): pp. 128, 130, (repr.) [as Francis Kyte].
Waterhouse, E.K. The Dictionary of British 18th Century Painters in Oils and Crayons. 1981, p. 212.
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Francis Kyte, Portrait of Mrs. E.B., 1741, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Director's Discretionary Fund, 57.255.
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