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William Pitt

1787/1796
Gainsborough Dupont visual detail
ArtistGainsborough Dupont
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Medium
oil on board
Dimensions
overall: 15.5 x 12.4 cm (6 1/8 x 4 7/8 in.) framed: 29.8 x 27.6 x 5 cm (11 3/4 x 10 7/8 x 1 15/16 in.)
Classification
Painting
Institution
National Gallery of Art
Object number
1970.17.120
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

Market Intelligence

Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.

Public evidence
Last known price $3,000 Dealer sale · Apr 12, 1930
Matched price history · normalized USD · Foundry provisional
1930 · $3,000
$3K1930
Last known price$3,0001 matched observed sale
Observed median$3,000
Observed sales1
Artist index6.3
1930-04-12Dealer sale$3,000.00
Artist index contextLatest public build 6.3 · base 100 · n=1.Artist-level context is not an artwork valuation.

Comparable Sales

Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.

Evidence ranked
ArtworkSale dateHouseRealized USDMatch
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
1787 · oil on canvas		1922-05-01—$72,000.0053%
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
1787 · oil on canvas		1921-01-01—$12,000.0053%
George IV as Prince of Wales
1781 · oil on canvas		1918-01-29—$40,000.0051%
George IV as Prince of Wales
1781 · oil on canvas		1918-01-01—$55,000.0051%

Similarity score is descriptive evidence ranking, not a valuation model. Every row comes from the public-rights market boundary.

Provenance

Public
Perhaps purchased by (A. Betts) at an unidentified sale prior to 14 February 1930.[1] (M. Knoedler & Co.), New York, who sold it 1930 to Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, who gave it to his daughter, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, New York, by 1937

Perhaps purchased by (A. Betts) at an unidentified sale prior to 14 February 1930.[1] (M. Knoedler...

by bequest to NGA, 1970.

by bequest to NGA, 1970.

[1] According to Knoedler's stock books, recorded by The Provenance Index, J. Paul Getty Trust, Santa Monica, California.

[1] According to Knoedler's stock books, recorded by The Provenance Index, J. Paul Getty Trust, Sant...

Source provenance text

Perhaps purchased by (A. Betts) at an unidentified sale prior to 14 February 1930.[1] (M. Knoedler & Co.), New York, who sold it 1930 to Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, who gave it to his daughter, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, New York, by 1937; by bequest to NGA, 1970. [1] According to Knoedler's stock books, recorded by The Provenance Index, J. Paul Getty Trust, Santa Monica, California.

Ngaconfidence 100%

Exhibitions

Public
No rights-cleared exhibition history is published.
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Catalog neighbours

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Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

Gainsborough Dupont · 1787

$72,000Last sale
1922
George IV as Prince of Wales

George IV as Prince of Wales

Gainsborough Dupont · 1781

$40,000Last sale
1918
Anne Elizabeth Cholmley (1769–1788), Later Lady Mulgrave

Anne Elizabeth Cholmley (1769–1788), Later Lady Mulgrave

Gainsborough Dupont · 1774

Sourced Overview Evidence

William Pitt is a work by Gainsborough Dupont. dated 1787/1796. made in oil on board. with recorded dimensions overall: 15.5 x 12.4 cm (6 1/8 x 4 7/8 in.) framed: 29.8 x 27.6 x 5 cm (11 3/4 x 10 7/8 x 1 15/16 in.). The work is recorded by National Gallery of Art under accession 1970.17.120.

Ngaconfidence 100%

Evidence state

1 observed sales · 4 comparable sales · 3 structured provenance events · 0 structured exhibitions.

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