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

Lot 96
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Lot 96 | SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. (PLYMPTON 1723-1792 LONDON)
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SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. (PLYMPTON 1723-1792 LONDON)

Portrait of Edwin, 2nd Baron Sandys (1726-1797), half-length, in a pink and green velvet waistcoat and jacket

oil on canvas, unlined

29 7⁄8 x 25 in. (76 x 60.5 cm.)





Provenance

Commissioned by Henry (1728-1781) and Hester Thrale (1741-1821) in 1773 for the library at Streatham Park, Surrey; sale, on the premises, George Squibb, 10 May 1816, lot 56, where acquired by the following,

Mary, Marchioness of Downshire and 1st Baroness Sandys (1764-1836), and by descent to her second son,

Lieutenant-General Arthur Hill, 2nd Baron Sandys (1792-1860), and by inheritance to his younger brother,

Arthur Marcus Sandys, 3rd Baron Sandys (1798-1863), and by descent in the family to,

Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys (1931-2013), Ombersley Court, Worcestershire.



Literature

A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., London, 1899, III, p. 866.

J. Grego, Inventory of Pictures: Portraits, Paintings, etc., Ombersley MS., 1905, where listed in the Library.

ONM / 1 / 2 / 7, journal entry for a visit to Ombersley Court, 25 August 1950, Oliver Millar Archive, Paul Mellon Centre, London, p. 29.

Ombersley Court Inventory, June 1963, annotated Ombersley MS., where listed in the Boudoir.

M. Hyde, The Impossible Friendship: Boswell and Mrs Thrale, London, 1972, p. 58.

M. Hyde, 'The Library Portraits at Streatham Park', The New Rambler. Journal of the Johnson Society of London, C, 1979, pp. 14, 15, 21 and 23.

N. Tscherny, 'Reynolds' Streatham Portraits and the Art of Intimate Biography', The Burlington Magazine, CXXVIII, no. 994, January 1986, p. 4, no. 7.

D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds, A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London, 2000, I, p. 404, no. 1574; II, p. 436, pl. 1086.

M. Hallett, Reynolds: Portraiture in Action, New Haven and London, 2014, pp. 288, 290, 305 and 306, fig. 269.

Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS., p. 20, where listed in the Rose Boudoir.



Exhibited

London, National Portrait Gallery, Mr Boswell, 1967, no. 52.
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