id: 122344 accession number: 1942.640 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.640 updated: 2025-09-09 11:31:24.802000 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: 1963-10-01T04:00:00 Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-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 * {'description': '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).', 'opening_date': '1914-01-14T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1936).', 'opening_date': '1936-01-01T00:00:00'} --- 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: digital description: wall description: --- 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