id: 122344 accession number: 1942.640 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.640 updated: 2023-01-10 21:57:56.415000 Portrait of Mary Anne Jolliffe, after 1788. Gainsborough Dupont (British, 1754–1797). Oil on canvas; unframed: 75.5 x 63.5 cm (29 3/4 x 25 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance 1942.640 title: Portrait of Mary Anne Jolliffe title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: after 1788 creation date earliest: 1788 creation date latest: 1797 current location: 203B British Painting and Decorative Arts creditline: Bequest of John L. Severance copyright: --- culture: England, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - British before 1800 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Gainsborough Dupont (British, 1754–1797) - artist --- measurements: Unframed: 75.5 x 63.5 cm (29 3/4 x 25 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection opening date: 1942-11-12T04:00:00 Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943). title: Style, Truth and the Portrait opening date: 1963-10-02T04:00:00 Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 19, 1963). title: British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020) opening date: 2020-06-30T04:00:00 British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Exhibition of Paintings by Thomas Gainsborough, R.A., and J. M. W Turner. R.A., M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY (January 14 - January 31, 1914). * Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1936). --- PROVENANCE the sitter, Mary Anne Jolliffe, née Twyford [1756-1802], and Thomas Samuel Jolliffe [1746-1824], Ammerdown House, Somerset, by descent to William Jolliffe date: after 1788-1824 footnotes: citations: William Jolliffe, Esq., Ammerdown House, Somerset, by descent to Lord Hylton date: footnotes: citations: Lord Hylton, Ammerdown Park, Somerset, sold to A.G. Temple date: ?-1911 footnotes: citations: Mr. A.G. Temple date: footnotes: citations: (Arthur J. Sulley, London) date: by 1912 footnotes: citations: (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, sold to John L. Severance) date: 1912-? footnotes: *
Knoedler purchased the painting from Arthur J. Sulley on April 30, 1912 for $90,000
citations: John L. Severance [1863-1936], Cleveland, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1936 footnotes: *
John L. Severance purchased the painting from Knoedler for $115,000
citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1942- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Gainsborough Dupont was the only assistant that his famous uncle Thomas Gainsborough ever took. digital description: wall description: The only assistant his famous uncle ever had, Gainsborough Dupont apprenticed with Thomas Gainsborough before setting up his own studio. It is often difficult to distinguish the late works of both artists. This painting is among Dupont’s best portraits. He captures the beauty of his sitter with soft, flickering brushstrokes, detailing her frilly collar and impressive hairstyle, curled and powdered according to the current style. This portrait originally hung alongside that of her husband Thomas in the drawing room of the couple’s home, Ammerdown House in Somerset, where Thomas’s portrait still hangs today. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS
Belsey, Hugh. Thomas Gainsborough: The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies After Old Masters. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. p. 1014-15.
page number: url: Description of the Mansion, Marbles, and Pictures, at Ammerdown, in Somersetshire. London, United Kingdom: Saunders and Otley, 1857. page number: url: Gainsborough, Thomas. A Portrait of Lady Hylton by Thomas Gainsborough, 1727-1788. London, United Kingdom: M. Knoedler & Co. page number: url: Milliken, William M. "The Twentieth-Anniversary Exhibition of The Cleveland Museum of Art." Art News, XXXIV (June 1936): 6-14. page number: Reproduced: p. 14 url: Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942. page number: Reproduced: p. [17], Plate V, cat. no. 6; Mention: p. 21, cat. no. 6 url: https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n25 Francis, Henry S. "Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936". The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXIX, no. 11 (November, 1942):132-136. page number: Reproduced: p. 136 url: Comstock, Helen. "The John L. Severance Collection at Cleveland." Connoisseur, CXI (1943): 61. page number: Reproduced: p. 61 url: Waterhouse, Ellis K. "Preliminary Check List of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough." The Walpole Society, XXXIII (1948-1950): 63. page number: Reproduced: p. 63 url: Coe, Nancy. The History of the Collecting of European Paintings and Drawings in the City of Cleveland. Oberlin, OH, Department of Fine Arts, Oberlin College. 1955. page number: Reproduced: p. 232, vol. II, no. 6 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 473 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n87 Waterhouse, Ellis Kirkham. Gainsborough. London, United Kingdom: E. Hulton, 1958. page number: Reproduced: p. 76, no. 405 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 154 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n178 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 154 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n178 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 186; Mentioned: p. 187 url: Dorment, Richard. British Painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: From the Seventeenth Through the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1986. page number: Reproduced: p. 135, fig. 34-1 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.640/1942.640_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.640/1942.640_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.640/1942.640_full.tif