LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

30.00 in. (76.20 cm.) (height) by 25.00 in. (63.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, British Institution, 1858, no. 181. London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and Deceased Artists of the British School, January-March 1879, no. 51. Nottingham, Midland Counties Art Museum, 1879, no. 70. Birmingham, City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Loan collection of portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, George Romney, Thomas Gainsborough, John Hoppner, Sir Henry Raeburn, and other artists, 1900, no. 55.

Literature:

H. Angelo, Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, with memoirs of his late father and friends, London, 1828, I, pp. 118-119. A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, London, 1899-1901, I, p. 386; IV, p. 1324. E.K. Waterhouse, Reynolds, London, 1941, p. 57. D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, London, 2000, I, p. 322, no. 1197; II, p. 331, fig. 724.

Provenance:

Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle (1811-1864), Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire, by 1858, and by descent to his son, Henry Pelham-Clinton, 6th Duke of Newcastle (1834-1879), and by descent to his son, Henry Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of Newcastle (1864-1928), and by inheritance to his brother, Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope, the Earl of Lincoln (1866-1941); his sale, Christie's, London, 31 March 1939, lot 47, sold for 147 gns. to the following, with Agnew's, London, from whom acquired in 1943 by, C.G. Hoare, M.C. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 22 March 2005, lot 45.