File:Miss or Mrs Townsend (c 1794), attributed to Gainsborough Dupont.jpg

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Gainsborough Dupont: English: Miss or Mrs. Townsend.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Attributed to Gainsborough Dupont  (1754–1797)  wikidata:Q5517292
 
Attributed to Gainsborough Dupont
Description British painter and mezzotint engraver
Date of birth/death 20 December 1754 / 24 December 1754 Edit this at Wikidata 20 January 1797 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Sudbury London
Work location
London Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q5517292,P5102,Q230768
Title
English: Miss or Mrs. Townsend.
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: An oil-on-canvas portrait of Miss or Mrs. Townsend, the mother or an aunt of Colonel Thomas-Chaloner Bisse-Challoner. Ann Smith, daughter of Robeert Smith, married John Townsend, and had three children: William, of Fulham House (1741–1823; see the monumental inscription in Fulham's church); Mary Barnard (see another MI in Fulham church), once of Lower Grosvenor Street and then of Fulham and Little Chelsea (died 1842, aged 90), the relict of Rev. Benjamin Barnard (died 1815, aged c. 80), Prebend of Peterborough); and Mrs (Katherine) Bisse (died 1816) who was Col. Challoner's mother.
Date circa 1794
date QS:P571,+1794-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 22 in (55.8 cm); width: 19 in (48.2 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,22U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,19U218593
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Object history
  • 11 March 1931: Sold under the title Portrait of Mrs. Townsend, in white muslin dress cut low at the neck and white lace frills, her curly hair falling in ringlets on to her shoulders (incorrectly attributed as a painting by Thomas Gainsborough) by Cecil Fane De Salis through Christie's in London (lot 101) to McDonald & Nicholson, for £50 8s. Cecil inherited it from his elder brother, who inherited it from his father, brother-in-law of Col. Challoner.
  • 4 June 1987: Sold under the title Portrait of Mrs. Townsend through Sotheby's in New York (lot 132) for US$4,750 (hammer price).
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Source/Photographer Photograph of a photograph by Rodolph at English Wikipedia taken on 26 February 2014, 15:45 (according to Exif data), originally uploaded to en.wikipedia on 13 March 2014.
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