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IPSMG:R.1935.261

Ipswich Collections

painting, oil painting

Samuel Kilderbee (1725–1813)

Hairstyle of c. 1750 Samuel Kilderbee was born in Framlingham. He was trained as an attorney, and became Town Clerk of Ipswich in 1755. He had the difficult job to tackle corruption in the local council and remained until 1767. Gainsborough and Kilderbee shared a 'long and uninterrupted friendship', with Kilderbee receiving many letters from the artist, which were supposedly ‘brilliant but eccentric, and too licentious to be published'. The correspondence was apparently destroyed by Kilderbee's heirs. In 1776, Gainsborough's wife and daughters visited the Kilderbee’s in Ipswich and in the autumn of 1783 the two friends visited the Lake District together. Kilderbee was named as an 'overseer' of Gainsborough's will. He also owned a number of the artist's paintings including The Pool by the Woods and The Ladies in the Mall. Purchased with the assistance of the National Art Collections Fund and Felix Cobbold Bequest.

Thomas Gainsborough (artist)‎

Ipswich, Suffolk

1750 - 1759

18th Century

oil paint, canvas

height: 720.00 mm
width: 630.00 mm