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Gainsborough Paintings, Unfinished Art, Mary Robinson, Wallace Collection, Thomas Gainsborough, George Iv, Large Art Prints, The Royal Collection, Oil Painting Reproductions

This oil-sketch was acquired for George IV at the studio sale in 1797 of Gainsboroughs nephew and assistant, Gainsborough Dupont (the similarly unfinished nos 405077 and 405949 were in the same sale). This is a working study for a full-length portrait, commissioned by George IV in 1781, briefly in the collection of the sitter, also acquired by George IV in 1785, then given to the 2nd Marquess of Hartford in 1818 and now in the Wallace Collection.Mary Robinson (née Darby) was an actress who…

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