Susan Murrill, Mrs Henry Hill (1717-1794)
Thomas Gainsborough RA (Sudbury 1727 - London 1788)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1750 - circa 1759
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
749 x 622 mm (29 1/2 x 24 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Montacute House, Somerset
NT 597958
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Susan Murrill, Mrs Henry Hill (1717-1794) by Thomas Gainsborough RA (Sudbury 1727 - London 1788), circa 1750-59. Portrait of a Susan Murrill, smiling, half length to right almost in profile, her head facing, gazing at spectator, dark brown hair worn under a close fitting lace cap, (?) cluster earrings and necklet tied at the back of the neck with a yellow silk ribbon, wearing a pale blue satin dress, her right sleeve decorated with a yellow silk bow, a wide shoulder length lace-edged fichu, tied in front with a yellow silk bow. Of Monks Leigh, married in 1744 the Revd Henry Hill (1697-1775) who had succeeded his father as Rector of Buxhall, Suffolk in 1743.
Provenance
Anon. (= Rev. M. Hill) sale, 6 May 1910, lot 100 bought by Wyatt; Mrs W. H. Leslie sale, 13 November 1929, lot 448, bought by Tooth; bought and beqeathed by Sir Percy Malcolm Stewart (1871-1951) to the National Trust and transferred to Montacute House, 1960 after the death of Lady Stewart. Stolen 1961; recovered 1971
Credit line
Montacute House, The Malcolm Stewart Bequest (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Thomas Gainsborough RA (Sudbury 1727 - London 1788), publisher
References
Waterhouse 1936: Ellis K. Waterhouse, 45, Park Lane (Sir Philip Sassoon's) London, 1936 (exhibition catalogue), No.96. Ellis K. Waterhouse, ‘Checklist of Gainsborough Portraits’, Walpole Society, XXXIII, 1953, p.57 Thomas Gainsborough, Arts Council, Tate Gallery, London, 1953, No.18. Waterhouse 1958 Ellis K. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, London 1958, Page 74, no.369. "369. HILL, MRS HENRY (1717-94). Sandy. Heirs of Sir P.Malcom Stewart, BT. 29 1/2 x 24 1/2 in. (Anon. (=Rev. M.Hill) sale 6/v/1910 (100) bt. Wyatt: Mrs W.H.Leslie sale (13/xii/1929 (48) bt. Tooth; Bt. Leggatt by Sir P.M.Stewart and destined for the National Trust. Pl.31." Montacute House, Somerset, 1976 [The National Trust; Dudley Dodd] 1976, "THE DRAWING ROOM Mrs Hill, by Thomas Gainsborough." Montacute House, Somerset, 1997 [The National Trust; Malcolm Rogers] 1991, revised 1997 , Page 60 "Susan Murrill, Mrs Henry Hill (1717-94) The sitter married Henry Hill in 1744, the year after he succeeded his father as Rector of Buxhall, Suffolk. An engaging portrait, painted in the artist's late Ipswich period, in a rococo frame (Stewart bequest. Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88), late 1750s." Montacute House, Somerset, 1997 [The National Trust; Malcolm Rogers] 1991, revised 1997 , Page 60 "Susan Murrill, Mrs Henry Hill (1717-94) The sitter married Henry Hill in 1744, the year after he succeeded his father as Rector of Buxhall, Suffolk. An engaging portrait, painted in the artist's late Ipswich period, in a rococo frame (Stewart bequest. Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88), late 1750s." Montacute House, Somerset, 2004-2006 [The National Trust; Malcolm Rogers] 2000, revised 2004, reprinted 2005, 2006, Page 48 "Susan Murrill, Mrs Henry Hill (1717-94) The sitter married Henry Hill in 1744, the year after he succeeded his father as Rector of Buxhall, Suffolk. An engaging portrait, painted in the artist's late Ipswich period, in a rococo frame (Stewart bequest. Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88), late 1750s."