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DANIEL GARDNER (1750-1805)

Three Children with a Dog, the eldest girl in white dress and blue underskirt, holding up a spaniel to her sister above, the youngest in white with pink sash seated on the left

Oil on canvas

31 1/4 x 22 1/4 in.

PROVENANCE:

Suckling Collection, London

Christies, London, Dec 11, 1909 (Lot 127, bt. Natiali, 472 pounds 10 shillings)

Private Collection, England

Newhouse Galleries, New York

Private Collection, Ohio

LITERATURE:

Private Printing, Catalogue of the Suckling Collection, London 1909, #127

Dr. G. C. Williamson, Daniel Gardner, 1921 page 167

Born Kendal. Attended town’s grammar school, where he was a fellow pupil of George Romney (1734-1802). Left for London in the late 1760’s and may have worked with Romney. Entered the Royal Academy in 1770 (Silver Medallist 1771), where he received instruction from Zoffany, Dance, and Bartolozzi. Assisted in Sir Joshua Reynolds’ studio briefly in 1773. Established a fashionable practice. Gardner specialized in small-scale portraits in crayons or gouache, often borrowing Reynolds’ poses. His oils date circa 1779 and are rare.

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