Details
Attributed to SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS (1723-1792)
Portrait of Sir Brooke Boothby, Bt., half length, wearing a blue jacket, yellow waistcoat and white cravat
oil on canvas
29 x 24in. (73.6 x 60.9cm.)
Provenance
Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin (godson of the sitter)
Sale, Ashbourne Hall, Derbyshire, May 2, 1846, lot 76 (where probably bought back by the family)
Reginald Darwin, Esq.
F. Darwin Huish
Anon. sale, Dec. 14, 1900, lot 105 (110 gns. to Colnaghi)
Sir George Drummond, Montreal; sale, Christie's, London, June 17, 1919, lot 202 (#1,627.10 to Knoedler)
acquired by the museum in 1919
Literature
S.W. Reynolds, Engravings from the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 2, pl. 69
A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, List of Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1889, I, p. 95
W. Armstrong, Reynolds, 1900, p. 195
A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1901, 1, p. 95, 4, p. 1269
Detroit Institute of Arts Bulletin, 1, 1920, no. 6, p. 87
E.K. Waterhouse, Reynolds, 1941, p. 75, as a late work by Reynolds M. Cormack, The Ledgers of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Walpole Society, XLII, 1970, p. 147
Exhibited
Midland Counties, England, Derby Exhibition, 1870, no. 787 (lent by R. Darwin, Esq.)
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 18th Century Portraits, Jan. 1931 Columbus, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Sir Joshua Reynolds and his Contemporaries, Jan. 30-March 2, 1958, no. 30
Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada Collects: European Paintings 1860-1960, Jan. 19-Feb. 21, 1960, no. 36
Engraved
J.R. Smith, 1797
