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accession number: 1942.640
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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
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creation date: after 1788
creation date earliest: 1788
creation date latest: 1797
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creditline: Bequest of John L. Severance
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culture: England, 18th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - British before 1800
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Gainsborough Dupont (British, 1754–1797) - artist
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measurements: Unframed: 75.5 x 63.5 cm (29 3/4 x 25 in.)
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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).
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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).
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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
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William Jolliffe, Esq., Ammerdown House, Somerset, by descent to Lord Hylton
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Lord Hylton, Ammerdown Park, Somerset, sold to A.G. Temple
date: ?-1911
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Mr. A.G. Temple
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(Arthur J. Sulley, London)
date: by 1912
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(M. Knoedler & Co., New York, sold to John L. Severance)
date: 1912-?
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Knoedler purchased the painting from Arthur J. Sulley on April 30, 1912 for $90,000
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John L. Severance [1863-1936], Cleveland, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: ?-1936
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* John L. Severance purchased the painting from Knoedler for $115,000
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1942-
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fun fact:
Gainsborough Dupont was the only assistant that his famous uncle Thomas Gainsborough ever took.
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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.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Belsey, Hugh. Thomas Gainsborough: The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies After Old Masters. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. p. 1014-15.
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Description of the Mansion, Marbles, and Pictures, at Ammerdown, in Somersetshire. London, United Kingdom: Saunders and Otley, 1857.
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Gainsborough, Thomas. A Portrait of Lady Hylton by Thomas Gainsborough, 1727-1788. London, United Kingdom: M. Knoedler & Co.
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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
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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
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Comstock, Helen. "The John L. Severance Collection at Cleveland." Connoisseur, CXI (1943): 61.
page number: Reproduced: p. 61
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Waterhouse, Ellis K. "Preliminary Check List of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough." The Walpole Society, XXXIII (1948-1950): 63.
page number: Reproduced: p. 63
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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
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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
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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
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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
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