AFTER THOMAS GAINSBOROUGHPORTRAIT OF SIR THOMAS HANMER IN A YELLOW WAISTCOATOil on canvas92 x 71cm (36 x 27¾ in.)Literature:The original listed in Hugh Belsey, Thomas Gainsborough, The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies After Old Masters (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019) vol 1, p. 438, no. 442 Catalogue Note:Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd Bt (1747-1828) was the eldest son of Sir Walden Hanmer, 1st Bt (1717-1783), and his wife Anne, daughter and coheir of Henry Vere Graham of Holbrook Hall, Suffolk. Hanmer studied at Eton before heading to St. Catherine's College, Cambridge. In 1779 Hanmer married Margaret, daughter of George Kenyon of Peel. Taken from the original label on the reverse of the canvas it states Hamner was ' nominated to represent the County of Flint in Parliament upon the death of Sir Roger Mostyn in August 1796, but did not succeed this year 1803, during the war with France under the usurpation of Bonaparte. This gentleman raised two troops of Yeomanry Cavalry for His Majesty's service.'The original work dated to 1788 by Thomas Gainsborough has been held in a private collection in New Zealand since 2008.