CIRCLE OF THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH (BRITISH 1727-1788)
PORTRAIT OF "MISS DANET"
£8,125
Auction: 30 October 2019 at 13:00 GMT
Description
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76cm x 64cm (30in x 25in)
Footnote
Provenance: The private collection of the Boode family; the private collection of the Winthrop family (Sudbury); Lot 109, Christies, March 11, 1955, fully attributed to Thomas Gainsborough as “Portrait of Miss Danet”.
Note: Research indicates that the sitter in this fine portrait is Phoebe Pemberton b.1693, wife of the powerful and wealthy Liverpool industrialist John Pemberton. Their granddaughter, Anne Ogden, married the Reverend Thomas Dannett, rector of Liverpool. Their only child, Margaret, became the wife of Lewis Boode, the son of Dutch plantation owners in Demerara.
Through marriage, Margaret Boode became the stepmother and relation to members of the Heywood family, whose portraits were painted by both Gainsborough and Reynolds.
“Miss Danet” was sold in 1955 along with a Portrait of Andrew Christopher Boode esq by Pompeo Batoni [Lot 108 Christies March 11, 1955].
The preservation of this work, through several generations of the Boode and Winthrop families, may indicate the wealth and status conferred on the female descendants of Phoebe Pemberton.
A copy of the Technical Examination of "Miss Danet", prepared by the Courtauld Institute, is available to interested parties upon request.
This report contains important X-Ray, Infra-Red and pigment information.