Thomas Gainsborough
Dr. Benjamin Buckler
1746-1787
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 29-3/4 x 24-3/4 in. (75.6 x 62.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Lucy Ridgely Seymer
Object Number
1972.28
Half length, wearing a grey coat and holding a book
The Baltimore Museum of Art by request 1972; Lucy Ridgely Seymer; Mrs. Vivian Seymer; bought circa 1912 by W.H. Buckler; by descent to Sir Wroth Lethbridge
Belsey, Hugh. Thomas Gainsborough: The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies After Old Masters. 2 vols. New Haven and London: Yale University Press; London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2019.
