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Exhibition title: Gainsborough’s Family Album

Dates: National Portrait Gallery, 22 Nov 2018 – 3 Feb 2019

List of objects proposed for protection under part six of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007. (Protections of cultural objects on loan from outside the UK):

Inv: Kat.nr.: 2200 Title: Margaret Gainsborough, the Artist’s Wife By artist: Thomas Gainsborough Date: c.1758 Medium: oil on canvas H x W: 760 x 635 mm

Lender: Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Credit Line: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie Copyright: Photo © bpk / Gemäldegalerie, SMB / Volker- H. Schneider Provenance: By descent to the great nephew of the sitter and artist, Richard Lane; sold to William Sharpe in 1841, then by descent to his son William; his sale, Christie's 8 May 1897 (12), bt Coreau; … M. Gagnier, Brussels 1894 [check]; sale Christie's 8 May 1897 (12); …with German Reichsbank by 1930; acquired by Soviet Union Military 1945-1958; acquired by present owner in 1958 as Picture Gallery East Berlin, GDR, then transferred after collapse of Soviet Union in 1992 to reorganised Gemäldegalerie Ownership between 1 January 1933 and 31 Note that this object has a complete December 1945: provenance for the years 1933-1945

Inv: KDZ 6850 Title: Study for a Portrait of the Artist's Wife and Daughters (?) By artist: Thomas Gainsborough Date: c.1759-62 Medium: Pencil, trimmed at all four corners H x W: 379 x 244 mm

Lender: Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, bundesunmittelbar Stiftung des öffentlichen Rechts, vertreten durch den Präsidenten, dieser vertreten durch den Generaldirektor der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Herrn Prof. Dr. Michael Eissenhauer, Stauffenbergstr 41, 10785 Berlin Credit Line: Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Copyright: Photo: © bpk / Kupferstichkabinett, SMB / Dietmar Katz Provenance: Gift to the Kupferstichkabinett from an unknown private person 1913 Ownership between 1 January 1933 and 31 Note that this object has a complete December 1945: provenance for the years 1933-1945

Inv: CGA.37.18 Title: John Gainsborough, the Artist’s Father By artist: Thomas Gainsborough Date: c.1746-8 Medium: oil on canvas H x W: 613 x 511 mm

Lender: Corcoran Gallery of Art Credit Line: Corcoran Collection (Edward C. and Mary Walker Collection) CGA.37.18 Copyright: Image courtesy of the of Art, Washington Provenance: By descent to Richard ; his posthumous sale. Wheeler and Westoby, Sudbury, 29 May 1874, lot 124, bt Hogarth; … GM Butterworth, Saffron Walden by 1884; … with Thos Agnew & Sons; bought from them by Edward C. and Mary Walker; bequeathed to Corcoran Gallery in 1937 and transferred to NGA in 2014 Ownership between 1 January 1933 and 31 Note that this object has a complete December 1945: provenance for the years 1933-1945

Inv: NGI.675 Title: Humphrey Gainsborough, the Artist's Brother By artist: Thomas Gainsborough Date: c.1754-6 Medium: oil on canvas H x W: 580 x 480 mm

Lender: National Gallery of Ireland Credit Line: National Gallery of Ireland. Presented, Sir Hugh Lane, 1914 Copyright: Photo © National Gallery of Ireland Provenance: By descent to the great nephew of the sitter and artist, Richard Lane; sold to William Sharpe in 1841, then by descent to his son William; his sale, Christie's 8 May 1897 (11) bt FC Murray;…Sir Hugh Lane and given by him to present owner in 1914 Ownership between 1 January 1933 and 31 Note that this object has a complete December 1945: provenance for the years 1933-1945

Inv: 1987.139 Title: Sarah Dupont, the Artist’s Sister By artist: Thomas Gainsborough Date: c.1777–9 Medium: oil on canvas H x W: 772 x 645 mm

Lender: The Art Institute of Chicago Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection; through prior gift of Mr. and Mrs. Denison B. Hull, Mr. and Mrs William Kimball, and Mrs. Charles Mc Culloch, 1987.139 Copyright: Image © 2018. The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, NY / Scala, Florence Provenance: Presumably painted for Philip Dupont, husband of the sitter and the artist’s brother- in-law (died 1788), Sudbury; by descent to his grandson Richard Gainsborough Dupont (died 1874), also of Sudbury, by 1856 [Fulcher 1856]; sold with his collection, Wheeler and Westoby, Sudbury, May 29, 1874, no. 127, as “Mrs. Philip Dupont, wife of the above [no. 126]”, to J.H. Chance for 36 gns; J. H. Chance, to at least 1887 [ 1887]. Probably William Carr (died 1925), Ditchingham Hall, Norfolk [in a letter of August 22, 1993 in curatorial file, his granddaughter, Countess Ferrers, suggested that he acquired it when he enlarged Ditchingham Hall about 1911]. His son, Brigadier William Greenwood Carr, D.S.O., Ditchingham Hall (died 1982), certainly by 1955 [annotated photograph in the archive, Paul Mellon Center, London]; by descent to his daughter, Annabel Mary, Countess Ferrers. Richard L. Feigen and Co., New York, by 1986; sold to the Art Institute, 1987. Ownership between 1 January 1933 and 31 Note that this object has a complete December 1945: provenance for the years 1933-1945

Inv: B1981.25.298

Title: Humphrey Gainsborough, the Artist's Brother By artist: Thomas Gainsborough Date: c.1770-4 Medium: oil on canvas H x W: 597 x 495 mm

Lender: Yale Center for British Art Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection Copyright: n/a Provenance: Sir George Donaldson (1845-1925), London; Henry Schniewind, Jr.; Anon. (=Schniewind) sale, Sotheby's London, 25 May 1938, lot no.139, bt Wheeler; Thomas E. Lowinsky, London; by descent to his son Justin Lowinsky; Colnaghi, Feb. 1963. Ownership between 1 January 1933 and 31 Note that this object has a complete December 1945: provenance for the years 1933-1945 Inv: B1981.25.294 Title: Susan Gardiner, the Artist’s Niece By artist: Thomas Gainsborough Date: c.1758-9 Medium: oil on canvas H x W: 619 x 511 mm

Lender: Yale Center for British Art Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection Copyright: n/a Provenance: by descent to the artist's great nephew, the Revd Edward Richard Gardiner; by descent to his grandson Edward Netherton Harward; his widow's sale, Christie's 11 May 1923 (105), bt Knoedler; P MacFadden, NY 1923; deposited by Mrs George F Baker on consignment with Wildenstein & Co. NY in 1961, from whom purchased by Paul Mellon in same year; gift to YCBA 1981 Ownership between 1 January 1933 and 31 Note that this object has a complete December 1945: provenance for the years 1933-1945 Inv: B1977.14.5980 Title: Study of a Woman in a Mob Cap By artist: Thomas Gainsborough Date: c.1780-5 Medium: black chalk heightened with white chalk H x W: 194 x 137 mm

Lender: Yale Center for British Art Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection Copyright: n/a Provenance: Sir George Donaldson (1845-1925), London; Henry Schniewind, Jr.; Anon. (=Schniewind) sale, Sotheby's London, 25 May 1938, lot no.139, bt Wheeler; Thomas E. Lowinsky, Lolndon; by descent to his son Justin Lowinsky; Colnaghi, Feb. 1963 Ownership between 1 January 1933 and 31 Note that this object has a complete December 1945: provenance for the years 1933-1945