id: 124080
accession number: 1944.82
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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
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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
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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
* Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788) - artist
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measurements: Unframed: 76.2 x 63.6 cm (30 x 25 1/16 in.)
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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).
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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'}
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PROVENANCE
Mrs. Henry Christopher Wise (née Mary Wathen) [born 1751] by descent to her great-granddaughter, Catherine Waller
date: around 1776-?
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Catherine [1804-1861] and Sir Thomas Wathen Waller, 2nd Bt [1805-1892], by descent to their grandson, Sir Francis Grant Waller
date: ?-1892
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Sir Francis Grant Waller, 4th Bt, sold to Agnew
date: 1892-1910
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(Agnew, London, sold to Duveen)
date: 1910
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purchased by Agnew on May 11, 1910
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(Duveen, through Romer Williams)
date: 1910
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* purchased by Duveen through Romer Williams on June 2, 1910
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(F. Kleinberger Galleries, New York, NY)
date: ?
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(Duveen)
date: 1913
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Elizabeth Severance Prentiss Allen [1865-1944], Cleveland, OH, bequeathed by her to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: ?-1944
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1944-
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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, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. p. 884-885.
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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].
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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
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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
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Waterhouse, Ellis Kirkham. Gainsborough. London, United Kingdom: E. Hulton, 1958.
page number: Reproduced: p. 96, no. 729
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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
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Whitley, William T. Thomas Gainsborough. London: Unicorn, 2016.
page number: Reproduced: P. 157
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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
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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
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IMAGES
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