Currently not on view
Portrait of a Gentleman
Nathaniel Dance, British, 1735–1811
y1982-81
Information
Title
Portrait of a Gentleman
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
127.5 x 101.5 cm (50 3/16 x 39 15/16 in.)
frame: 136 × 111 × 3.7 cm (53 9/16 × 43 11/16 × 1 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Stuart P. Feld, Class of 1957, and Mrs. Feld, in honor of the graduate students on the occasion of the centennial of the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 1883-1983
Object Number
y1982-81
Place Made
Europe, England
Culture
Type
Subject
Robinson, Fisher & Harding, Anonymous sale, London, 24 March 1910, lot 154; Shepherd Brothers, London 1910; A.M. Grenfell sale, June 26, 1914, lot 53; Colonel Swinfen Broun; his sale Christie's, London, December 10, 1948, no. 113 [bought in]; sale April 1, 1949, lot 127; Arthur Appleby, London; ca. 1956 sold to Charles D. Childs; Child's Gallery, Inc., Boston; purchased by Stuart Feld, 1966; 1982 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.
- Shepherd Bros.' winter exhibition of selected pictures by early British masters and eminent foreign painters, (London: Shepherd Bros., 1910)., no. 100
- Pictures & drawings by old and modern masters, (London: Robinson & Fisher, 1910).
- "Current art notes", Connoisseur 28, (Sept.-Dec., 1910): p. 315-322., p. 315 (illus.); p. 317
- Catalogue of important pictures by old masters and works of the early English school: also important pictures forming the Dashwood Heirlooms, and fine portraits of the early British school, (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1914)., no. 53
- Victoria Manners and G. C. Williamson, John Zoffany, R. A., his life and works (1735-1810), (London: John Lane; New York: John Lane company, 1920)., p. 236B (illus.)
- Catalogue of ancient and modern pictures and drawings: the properties of Colonel M.A.W. Swinfen Broun ... and from other sources, which will be sold at auction by Christie, Manson & Woods ... Friday, December 10, 1948 ..., (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1948)., no. 113
- Ancient and modern pictures ... from various sources ... April 1, 1949, (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1949)., no. 127
- Problem pictures: paintings without authors: [exhibition] October 13-November 15, 1965, (Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1965)., no. 18
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1982", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 42, no. 1 (1983): p. 50-70., p. 67
