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

Lot 140
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Lot 140 | SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A (PLYMPTON 1723-1792 LONDON)
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$ 60 000 – 80 000
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A (PLYMPTON 1723-1792 LONDON)
Portrait of General William John Kerr (1737-1815), 5th Marquess of Lothian, styled Lord Newbottle and later Earl of Ancram, half-length
indistinctly inscribed 'Willm Earl of Ancram, Son of / Willm 4th Marquess of Lothian' (upper left)
oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 25 in. (76.5 x 63.5 cm.)




Provenance

The sitter, and by descent until,
[The Property of Mrs. Kellett, of Rotherby, Leicestershire, a great-great-grand-daughter of the sitter]; Christie's, London, 12 June 1931, lot 58, 1,650 gns. to the following,
with Gooden & Fox, London.
with Scott & Fowles, New York, by 1933.
with Knoedler, New York, where acquired on 5 January 1938 by,
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), New York, and by descent in the family until 1960, when bequeathed to,
William Kelly Simpson (1928-2017), New Haven, CT; [Property from the Estate of William Kelly Simpson], Christie's, New York, 31 October 2017, lot 46, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

E.K. Waterhouse, Reynolds, London, 1941, p. 46.
D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A complete catalogue of his paintings, New Haven and London, 2000, I, p. 294, under no. 1066.



Exhibited

Edinburgh, Board of Manufactures, Works by Old Masters and Scottish National Portraits, 1883, no. 198.
San Francisco, The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Loan Exhibition of English Painting of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, 6 June-9 July 1933, no. 43.
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