SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. (PLYMPTON 1723-1792 LONDON) AND STUDIO

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03.12.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1513616
Los 167 | SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. (PLYMPTON 1723-1792 LONDON) AND STUDIO
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£ 25 000 – 35 000
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. (PLYMPTON 1723-1792 LONDON) AND STUDIO
Portrait of Frances Marsham, Countess of Romney, née Wyndham (1755-1795), three-quarter-length, in a white dress
oil on canvas
56 ¼ x 45 1/8 in. (142.7 x 114.6 cm.)




Provenance

Painted for the sitter's sister, Elizabeth Herbert, née Wyndham, Countess of Carnarvon (1752-1826) and her husband, Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon (1741-1811) and by descent to,
Henry Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon (1898-1987), Highclere Castle, Newbury; Christie's, London, 22 May 1925, lot 112, where acquired for 2,800 gns. by the following,
with Leggatt Bros., London, where acquired in 1925 by the grandfather of the present owner.



Literature

A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A., London, 1899, II, p. 630.
'Carnet d'un Collectionneur. Grandes Ventes Étrangères: La Collection de la Comtesse de Carnarvon - III', Le Figaro Artistique, 12 November 1925, p. 76, illustrated.
E.K. Waterhouse, Reynolds, London, 1941, pp. 67 and 107.
D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London, 2000, I, p. 328, no. 1224; II, fig. 1175, as 'a half-length studio replica'.



Exhibited

London, British Institution, 1851, no. 127, lent by the Earl of Carnarvon.
London, Grosvenor Gallery, Exhibition of the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., 31 December 1883-29 March 1884, no. 194, lent by the Earl of Carnarvon.
London, New Gallery, Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph, 31 December 1890-4 April 1891, no. 143, lent by the Earl of Carnarvon.



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R.B. Parkes, 1863.
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