LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

75.6 x 62.7 cm.; 29¾ x 24? in.

Exhibited:

London, The Grafton Galleries, Exhibition of Fair Women, 1894, no. 193 (lent by T.W. Bacon).

Literature:

A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A history of the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, London 1899, vol. III, p. 1167, and vol. IV, p. 1456;; M. Postle, in D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds, A complete catalogue of his paintings, New Haven and London 2000, text vol., p. 532, cat. no. 2076, reproduced plates vol., p. 597, fig. 1626. 

Provenance:

George Francis Wyndham, 4th Earl of Egremont (1786–1845);; By whom sold, London, Christie's, 21 May 1892, lot 90, to McLean for £194–5s.;; With Donaldson;; With Dowdeswell & Dowdeswell, London, after 1887 (purchased from the above);; T.W. Bacon (purchased from the above for £300 in 1894);; By descent to A.W. Bacon;; By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 15 March 1978, lot 37 (as The Laughing Girl), where acquired by the family of the present owner.; ;