About the Artwork
Elizabeth Lewis
ca. 1776
Daniel Gardner
1750-1805
English
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Pastel and gouache on canvas
Image: 24 × 27 inches (61 × 68.6 cm) Framed: 27 × 30 × 2 1/4 inches (68.6 × 76.2 × 5.7 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Bequest of Mrs. Doris Grigaut
F79.49
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, in pen and black ink, continued in pencil, on blue paper, previously attached to wood panel, inset in back of frame, upper left: By Sir Thomas Lawrence Inscribed, in pen and black ink, on another piece of paper previously attached to wood panel inset in back of frame, center left: Elizabeth Lewis | b 175 md 1795 d 18 | md Sir Herbert Croft. | by Sir Thos. Lawren[ce; crossed out and remainded torn away] | she was 3rd dr David Lewis & Mary Gres[wolde; remainder torn away] | of Malvern Hall. Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, on another piece of paper, previously attached to wood panel, inset in back of frame, center: Miss Elizabeth | Lewis.--
Provenance
probably Henry Greswold[e] Lewis (Warwickshire, Solihull, England);by descent to Edmund Meysey Wigley Greswolde [d. 1833];
1833, by descent to Henry Wigley Greswolde;
Captain Thomas Suckling (London, England);
July 2, 1909, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 29;
1909, purchased by Asher Wertheimer (London, England);
Paul Le Roy Grigaut;
by inheritence to his wife, Doris Grigaut [d. 1977];
1979-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Pictures. Sales cat., Christie, Manson and Woods. London, 1909, p. 7, no. 27.
Graves, A. Art Sales, vol. 1. London, 1918, p. 349.
Williamson, G.C. Daniel Gardner Painter in Pastel and Gouache. London, 1921, pp. 7-8, 55, 72, 129, 166-167; opp. p. 6 (ill.).
Beckett, R.B. John Constable's Correspondence IV Patrons, Dealers and Fellow Artists. Suffolk, 1966, p. 77.
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 244-246, no. 117.
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Daniel Gardner, Elizabeth Lewis, ca. 1776, pastel and gouache on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Doris Grigaut, F79.49.
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