James ('Janus') Modyford Heywood (1732-1798)
Thomas Gainsborough RA (Sudbury 1727 - London 1788)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1760 - 1788
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1276 x 1016 mm (50 1/4 x 40 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Clevedon Court, North Somerset
NT 624154
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, James ('Janus') Modyford Heywood (1732-1798) by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788). Inscription....... A portrait of James Haywood as a young man, standing, three-quarter-length, in a dark blue coat with gold bars.
Provenance
Purchased from Lady Margaret Ann Elton (1915 – 1995), 1981 with the help of grants from the V&A Purchase Fund and the NHMF
Makers and roles
Thomas Gainsborough RA (Sudbury 1727 - London 1788), artist
References
Waterhouse 1958 Ellis K. Waterhouse, Gainsborough, London 1958, p.74: "365. HEYWOOD, JAMES MODYFORD (1732-98). Swaffham. Lord Suffield. 50 x 40 in. (Anon. sale 29/vi/1889 (37) bt. Hammond.) Late Bath work."