Live Auction 1186The Collection of Professor Sir Albert Richardson, P.R.A.
After Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.
Lot 242

After Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.

A girl feeding pigs in a wooded landscape

Closed19 September 2013

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GBP 3,000

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After Thomas Gainsborough, R.A.
A girl feeding pigs in a wooded landscape
oil on canvas
25 1/8 x 30 in. (63.7 x 76.3 cm.)
in an English 18th century carved giltwood frame

L.R. Nightingale, Paston House, Elm Hill, Norwich, where acquired by 1948.

Specialist note

After the picture at Castle Howard, Yorkshire.

10 September 1948
'Left Mundesley for Norwich, travelled via North Walsham and Aylsham to The Maid's Head Inn. Arrived in the afternoon then went to the exhibition at the Castle. A fun show of park portraits. Went to Nightingale's shop to see a picture by Thomas Gainsborough.'

24 September 1953
'Gainsborough's Pig Girl, we have a good copy at Ampthill.'
Professor Sir Albert Richardson, P.R.A.