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

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09.02.2023 10:30UTC +01:00
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Lot 70 | SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. (PLYMPTON 1723-1792 LONDON)
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. (PLYMPTON 1723-1792 LONDON)

Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Mrs. Elizabeth Sheridan (1754-1792), half-length, in a pink dress and gold embroidered sash, in a feigned oval

oil on canvas

30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)





Provenance

The Rigby family, Mistley Hall, Suffolk.

W. Thane, Rupell Place, 1834.

Sir John Peter Boileau, 1st Bt. (1794-1869), Ketteringham Park, Wymondham, Norfolk, by 1850, and by descent in the family to his grandson,

Sir Raymond Frederic Boileau, 4th Bt. (1868-1942).

with Scott & Fowles, New York, 1927.

with Knoedlers, New York.

Mary Stillman Harkness (1874-1950), New York, by whom bequeathed in 1951 to the following,

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Christie's, New York, 5 June 1980, lot 131, where acquired by the following,

with Newhouse Galleries, New York, 1980-1982.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 9 May 1985, lot 22.

The Estate of S.T. Fee; Sotheby's, New York, 12 January 1989, lot 146.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 19 May 1993, lot 39, where acquired by,

Hon. Douglas D. Everett (1927-2018) and Mrs. Patricia Everett (1927-2010); Christie's, London, 22 November 2006, lot 41, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., London, 1899, III, p. 1102, as 'Lady in a pink dress'.

Prince Frederick Duleep Singh, Portraits in Norfolk Houses, Norwich, 1928, I, p. 370, as 'Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan'.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Summer 1951, X, pp. 29-30, as 'Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan'.

C. Wright, Catalogue of Old Master Paintings from a Private Collection in the United States, Bradford and London, 1984, p. 97, no. 24.

D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds. A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London, 2000, I, p. 413, no. 1615; II, pl. 1129.



Exhibited

London, British Institution, Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French and English Masters, June 1850, no. 85, as 'A Lady', (lent by Sir J.P. Boileau, 1st Bt.).

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and Deceased Masters of the British School, 1885, no. 42, as 'Mrs. Sheridan', (lent by Sir Francis G.M. Boileau, 2nd Bt.).
Artist:Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)
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