Portrait of Lambe Barry
Thomas Gainsborough
- Art Funded
- 2001
- Dimensions
- 76 x 64 cm
- Vendor
- Trustees of the 6th Sixth Baron de Saumarez's Will Trust
A portrait of Lambe Barry (1704-1768), High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1748 and listed as a Free-burgess of Ipswich in 1755.
The sitter is depicted in a wig against a dark leafy background. Now thought to have been painted during the sitter's visit to Bath.
Provenance
By descent to Jane Broke who married 5th Baron de Saumarez; thence by descent; on loan to Gainsborough's House since 1961.