Portrait of Lambe Barry

Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788)

Gainsborough's House

1758

A portrait of Lambe Barry (1704-1768), High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1748 and listed as a Free-burgess of Ipswich in 1755. The sitter is depicted in a wig against a dark leafy background. Now thought to have been painted during the sitter's visit to Bath.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 76 x 64 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £40000 ( Total: £80,000)
• ArtFunded in: 2001
• Vendor: Trustees of the 6th Sixth Baron de Saumarez's Will Trust

Provenance

By descent to Jane Broke who married 5th Baron de Saumarez; thence by descent; on loan to Gainsborough's House since 1961.

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