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Clement Tudway (1734–1815)
Clement Tudway (1734–1815)

Clement Tudway (1734–1815)

Artist Thomas Gainsborough British, 1727–1788
Date1773
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions30 3/16 x 25 1/4 in. (76.7 x 64.1 cm)
Frame: 39 1/8 x 34 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. (99.4 x 87 x 8.6 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Lillian Boscowitz in memory of her mother Mrs. Franklin Terry
Object numberG.60.11.1
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceClement Tudway; his nephew John Paine Tudway; R. C. Tudway (d.1855); Charles Clement Tudway, Wells, until ca. 1909-12; [Scott and Fowles, New York?;] Mrs. Lillian Emerson Boscowitz, New York; given to NCMA, 1960.
Published ReferencesEllis Waterhouse, Gainsborough (London: Edward Hulton, 1958), no. 678.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, no. 1 (Fall 1963), listed 13, illus. (b-w) 12.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, nos. 2 and 3 (Winter-Spring 1964), mentioned 7, listed 58.

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums," The Art Quarterly 26, no. 1 (Spring 1963), 82, illus. 93.

British Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 2, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1969), no. 74, illus. (b-w).

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 117.

Richard Dorment, British Painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1986), 119-120, illus. 120.

John Hayes, ed., The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), illus. 192.

Michael Rosenthal and Martin Myrone, eds., Gainsborough (exhibition catalogue) (London: Tate Publishing, 2002), mentioned 154 (in connection with its pendant, Mrs. Elizabeth Tudway).

Hugh Belsey, Thomas Gainsborough: The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies after Old Masters, Vol. 2 (New Haven and London: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2019), no. 890, illus. (color) 830, pl. 890.
Exhibition HistoryMontgomery, AL, Montgomery Museum of Art, “Fall Fiesta Benefit Exhibition,” October 21-November 7, 1961.

Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, “Masterpieces from the North Carolina Museum of Art,” March 11-April 13, 1975.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “History and Mystery: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection,” August 6, 2016–June 25, 2017.
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