After Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A.

A Portrait of the Honourable Leicester Fitzgerald Stanhope, three-quarter length, beating a Drum

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After Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A.
A Portrait of the Honourable Leicester Fitzgerald Stanhope, three-quarter length, beating a Drum
inscribed 'The Hon, Leicester Fitz. Gerald Stanhope - The last Picture Sr Joshua Reynolds Painted'
pastel
28¾ x 23¾in. (73 x 60.3cm.)
see colour illustration

Provenance

From the family of the sitter

Exhibited

Royal Academy, London
1788 (124)

Manchester City Art Gallery, 1960

Lot Essay

Painted in 1788. The Honourable Leicester Stanhope (1784-1862) 3rd son of Charles, 3rd Earl of Harrington, succeeded as 5th Earl, 1851. Wrongly stated in a later inscription on the picture to be the last portrait painted by Reynolds.

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