LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

76.2 x 63.5 cm.; 30 x 25 in.

Exhibited:

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, on loan 13 June – 10 October 1929 (lent by the Stuart family);; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, on loan 13 June – 2 October 1968 (lent by the Stuart family).; ;

Literature:

A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A history of the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, London 1899, vol. II, p. 719;; D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds. A complete catalogue of his paintings, New Haven and London 2000, text vol., p. 361, cat. no. 1379 (as untraced);; I. Fraser, The Palk Family of Haldon House and Torquay, Newton Abbot 2015, p. 32. 

Provenance:

By descent from the sitter to his son Sir Lawrence Palk, 2nd Bt. (1766–1813), at Haldon House, Devon;; By descent to his second son, Robert John Malet Palk (1794–1870);; By descent to his son, Wilmot Henry Palk (1836–76);; By inheritance to his widow, Elizabeth Alexandrina Grieg Palk;; By whose Executors sold (‘The Property of the late Mrs E.A.G. Palk, by direction of the Administrator’), London, Robinson & Fisher, 13 March 1913, lot 102, for 200 Guineas to Tooth;; With Arthur Tooth & Sons, London;; By whom sold in 1913 to T. J. Blakeslee, New York, for $2,050;; His sale, New York, American Art Association, 22 April 1915, lot 131;; Anonymous sale, New York, American Art Association, 23–24 January 1924, lot 177 to Vose;; With Robert G. Vose Gallery, Boston;; By whom sold to Willoughby H. Stuart, Jnr., 12 Reservoir Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 27 October 1926, for $2,250;; By descent to his son, Harborne W. Stuart (1921–78);; Thence by descent until acquired by the present owner.; ;