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The Reverend Samuel Kilderbee (1725-1813)
Thomas Gainsboroughcirca 1758 partially repainted circa 1783
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
Kilderbee was an Ipswich attorney who became a close friend of Gainsborough. The two men exchanged letters that are now lost, but which were described in the 19th century as ‘brilliantly eccentric and too licentious to be published’. A close examination reveals (and an X-ray confirms) that the portrait has been repainted in everything except the face. This perhaps occurred around 1783, as it was in that year that Kilderbee accompanied Gainsborough on a tour of the Lake District.
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Details
- Title: The Reverend Samuel Kilderbee (1725-1813)
- Creator: Thomas Gainsborough
- Date Created: circa 1758 partially repainted circa 1783
- Physical Dimensions: 76.3 x 63.7 cm stretcher; 94.5 x 82.5 x 9.5 cm frame
- Provenance: Admiral de Horsey, pre 14 Jun 1929, London/England, his sale Christie's London, 14 June 1929, lot no. 45. Agnew's, London, post 14 Jun 1929, London/England, Purchased by Agnew's from Christie's London, 14 June 1929, lot no. 45. Lent by Agnew's to the 1931 Cincinnati exhibition. Jacques Guerlain, pre 1966, France Agnew's, London, pre Dec 1966, London/England, Purchased by the AGNSW from Agnew's 1966. Purchased from the exhibition 'Realism and Romance in English Painting' 14 November - 10 December 1966. Jointly owned by Agnew's and Newhouse Galleries, New York. Purchased by Newhouse Galleries presumably from the executors of Jacques Guerlain.
- Type: Painting
- Rights: Purchased 1966
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Signature & Date: Not signed. Not dated.
- Artist Country: England
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