The V&A acquired The Three Eldest Daughters of George III: Princesses Charlotte Augusta Matilda, Augusta Sophia, and Elizabeth as an oil painting by Thomas Gainsborough from Mr Whitehead on 14 May, 1878. Four days prior to this it had been purchased as Lot 235 in Mr Jonathan Heugh’s [possibly ‘Hugh’] sale at Christie’s on May 10, 1878. Two years before, it was Lot 56 in the Wynn Ellis sale at Christie’s on May 6, 1876; it had been lent by Wynn Ellis to the Royal Academy of Art in 1871, where it was exhibited as No 24 and described as a sketch for the Three Princesses by Gainsborough.
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