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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
current location: 203B British Painting and Decorative Arts
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
* {'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'}
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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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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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