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Portrait of Harriet, Viscountess Tracy (© Gainsborough's House)
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© Gainsborough's House

Portrait of Harriet, Viscountess Tracy

Artist: Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788)

Location: Gainsborough's House

Date: 1763

Materials: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 124 x 100 cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £10,000 (Total: £67,500)

Vendor: Historical Portraits Ltd

Review number: 3831 (1992)

Provenance:
Descent to Henry,8th Viscount Tracy; Henrietta Susanna; descent to Charles,4th Baron Sudeley; S.T.Gooden; E.N.Denny; Christie's 1906 ; Votkins; E.J.Wythes; Christie's 1949; K.Kimbell; bequeathed to Kimbell Art Foundation; Sotheby's 1991.

Description:
Full length portrait of Harriet Bathurst (1722-1795). Lady Tracy was the daughter of Peter Bathurst of Clarendon Park in Wiltshire. She married the Hon. Thomas Tracy in 1755, a year before he succeeded as 6th Viscount. On his succession he inherited Toddington Manor in Gloucestershire.

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