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 168
03.12.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 168 | SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. (PLYMPTON 1723-1792 LONDON)
Estimate value
£ 8 000 – 12 000
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. (PLYMPTON 1723-1792 LONDON)
Portrait of Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714-1794), seated three-quarter-length, in a maroon coat and breeches, holding a book
oil on canvas
50 5/8 x 40 ¼ in. (128.5 x 102.3 cm.)
in a Maratta frame




Provenance

Acquired on 11 November 1870 by Henry Graves and Co., London, where acquired on 12 December 1870 by,
Charles Wynn-Carrington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire (1843-1928), 53 Prince's Gate, London and Daws Hill, High Wycombe; (†), Christie's, London, 7 December 1928, lot 106, where acquired for 1,400 gns. by the following,
with Leggatt Bros., London, where acquired by 1936 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, I, pp. 145-146; III, pp. 883 and 1057, illustrated.
'Advertisement - Christie's', The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, LIII, no. 309, December 1928.
E.K. Waterhouse, Reynolds, London, 1941, p. 107.
D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London, 2000, I, p. 382, no. 1478; II, fig. 1285.
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