Portrait of a gentleman, traditionally identified as Frederick Howard, later 5th Earl of Carlisle (1748-1825), as a young man, small full-length, holding a bow in a landscape

CIRCLE OF THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R.A. (SUDBURY 1727-1788 LONDON)
Portrait of a gentleman, traditionally identified as Frederick Howard, later 5th Earl of Carlisle (1748-1825), as a young man, small full-length, holding a bow in a landscape
oil on canvas, oval, unframed
36¹⁄₂ x 27¹⁄₄ in. (92.7 x 69.2 cm.)

Sir James Linton P.R.I. (1840-1916), by 1895.
with Leggatt Bros., London, 1912.
Mrs Elizabeth Reid (1857-1931), wife of Whitelaw Reid, 451 Madison Avenue, New York; her sale (†), American Art Association, on the premises, 14 May 1935, lot 290, as 'Thomas Gainsborough' ($5,100).
Anonymous sale; Parke Bernet, New York, 4 May 1950, lot 98, as 'Thomas Gainsborough'.
Nelson and Eloise Davies, Toronto; (†) Christie's, New York, 4 June 2003, lot 170.
Anonymous sale; Vendu, Rotterdam, 1 November 2016, lot 17, as 'Follower of Thomas Gainsborough'.
Anonymous sale; EP Deutsch, Vienna, 4 April 2017, lot , as 'Attributed to Thomas Gainsborough'.

W. Armstrong, Gainsborough and his place in English Art, London, 1898, p. 192, as 'Thomas Gainsborough'.

London, Grafton Gallery, Fair Children, 1895, no. 182, as 'Thomas Gainsborough'.

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