Elizabeth Lewis

Daniel Gardner English, 1750-1805
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About the Artwork

Elizabeth 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 × 2 1/4 inches (68.6 × 76.2 × 5.7 cm)

Paintings

European Painting

Bequest of Mrs. Doris Grigaut

F79.49

This work is in the public domain.

Markings

Inscribed, in pen and black ink, continued in pencil, on blue paper, previously attached to wood panel, inset in back of frame, upper left: By Sir Thomas Lawrence Inscribed, in pen and black ink, on another piece of paper previously attached to wood panel inset in back of frame, center left: Elizabeth Lewis | b 175 md 1795 d 18 | md Sir Herbert Croft. | by Sir Thos. Lawren[ce; crossed out and remainded torn away] | she was 3rd dr David Lewis & Mary Gres[wolde; remainder torn away] | of Malvern Hall. Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, on another piece of paper, previously attached to wood panel, inset in back of frame, center: Miss Elizabeth | Lewis.--

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) lot 29

1909, purchased by Asher Wertheimer (London, England)

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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Published References

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. 27, 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. 117.

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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Credit Line for Reproduction

Daniel Gardner, Elizabeth Lewis, ca. 1776, pastel and gouache on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Doris Grigaut, F79.49.

Elizabeth Lewis
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