id: 124080 accession number: 1944.82 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.82 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:00.161000 Portrait of Mary Wise, c. 1774. Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788). Oil on canvas; unframed: 76.2 x 63.6 cm (30 x 25 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 1944.82 title: Portrait of Mary Wise title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1774 creation date earliest: 1773 creation date latest: 1774 current location: 203B British Painting and Decorative Arts creditline: The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 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 * Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788) - artist --- measurements: Unframed: 76.2 x 63.6 cm (30 x 25 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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': 'Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, United Kingdom (1778).', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'Second National Exhibition, Woman and Child in Art, Grosvenor Gallery, London, United Kingdom (1913-1914).', 'opening_date': '1913-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Mrs. Henry Christopher Wise (née Mary Wathen) [born 1751] by descent to her great-granddaughter, Catherine Waller date: around 1776-? footnotes: citations: Catherine [1804-1861] and Sir Thomas Wathen Waller, 2nd Bt [1805-1892], by descent to their grandson, Sir Francis Grant Waller date: ?-1892 footnotes: citations: Sir Francis Grant Waller, 4th Bt, sold to Agnew date: 1892-1910 footnotes: citations: (Agnew, London, sold to Duveen) date: 1910 footnotes: *
purchased by Agnew on May 11, 1910
citations: (Duveen, through Romer Williams) date: 1910 footnotes: *
purchased by Duveen through Romer Williams on June 2, 1910
citations: (F. Kleinberger Galleries, New York, NY) date: ? footnotes: citations: (Duveen) date: 1913 footnotes: citations: Elizabeth Severance Prentiss Allen [1865-1944], Cleveland, OH, bequeathed by her to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1944 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1944- 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, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. p. 884-885.
page number: url: Gainsborough, Thomas. Portrait of Mrs. Wise by Thomas Gainsborough, R.A., 1727-1788. Paris, France, New York, NY: F. Kleinberger Galleries, [date of publication not identified]. page number: url: Graves, Algernon. The Royal Academy of Arts; A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their Work from Its Foundation in 1769 to 1904. London, United Kingdom: H. Graves and Co, 1905. page number: Reproduced: p. 192, vol. III url: Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection : Bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. page number: Reproduced: p. [20], Plate VIII, cat. no. 5; Mentioned: p. 22, cat. no. 5 url: https://archive.org/details/Prentiss/page/n26 Waterhouse, Ellis K. "Preliminary Check List of Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough." The Walpole Society, XXXIII (1948-1950) page number: Reproduced: p. 114 url: Waterhouse, Ellis Kirkham. Gainsborough. London, United Kingdom: E. Hulton, 1958. page number: Reproduced: p. 96, no. 729 url: 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: Mentioned: p. 187-189; Reproduced: p. 188 url: Whitley, William T. Thomas Gainsborough. London: Unicorn, 2016. page number: Reproduced: P. 157 url: Belsey, Hugh. Thomas Gainsborough: The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies After Old Masters. New Haven : Published for the Paul mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2019. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 884-886, cat. 956 url: Francis, Henry S. "Paintings in the Pretiss Bequest."The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXXI, no. 6 (June, 1944): 87-89. page number: Mentioned: p. 89 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.82/1944.82_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.82/1944.82_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.82/1944.82_full.tif