SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. (PLYMPTON 1723-1792 LONDON) - photo 1
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. (PLYMPTON 1723-1792 LONDON) - photo 2
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. (PLYMPTON 1723-1792 LONDON) - photo 3

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

Lot 198
08.12.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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£ 40 320
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ID 1093550
Lot 198 | SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. (PLYMPTON 1723-1792 LONDON)
Estimate value
£ 25 000 – 35 000
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. (PLYMPTON 1723-1792 LONDON)

Portrait of Amelia Hume, later Lady Farnborough (1772-1837), half-length, in a white and black dress with a wide-brimmed hat

oil on canvas

29 ¾ x 24 7⁄8 in. (75.5 x 63.2 cm.)





Provenance

Commissioned from the artist by the sitter’s father, Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Bt. (1749-1838), Wormleybury, Hertfordshire, and by descent in the family to the following,

Mrs N.P. Dawson, née Long, Holne Park; Christie’s, London, 1 March 1946, lot 67 (unsold).

Bequeathed by Mrs Dawson to her friend, Miss Calmady Hamlyn, from whom acquired by the following,

with Morton Lee, London, from whom acquired by the father of the present owners.



Literature

A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., London, 1899, II, p. 494.

D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London, 2000, I, p. 270, no. 996c, as untraced.



Exhibited

London, British Institution, 1813, no. 61, lent by the Right Hon. C. Long.

London, British Institution, 1850, no. 89, lent by Samuel Long.
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