Portrait of Mrs. Elizabeth Bradshaw, née Wilson (d. 1802), half-length, in a white silk dress with an ermine-lined blue cloak

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SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A. (PLYMPTON, DEVON 1723-1792 LONDON)
Portrait of Mrs. Elizabeth Bradshaw, née Wilson (d. 1802), half-length, in a white silk dress with an ermine-lined blue cloak
oil on canvas
30 ¼ x 25 1⁄8 in. (76.8 x 63.8 cm.)

Provenance

Thomas Buller Bradshaw (1866-1927), Lifton Park, Devon, [Sold by Order of the Trustees of the Will of T.B. Bradshaw, Esq., deceased, late of Lifton Park, Devon]; Christie's, London, 18 July 1930, lot 81, where acquired for 756 gns. by the following,
with Agnew's, London (stockbook no. 12393), from whom acquired by the following on 4 July 1947,
with Newhouse Galleries, New York (stockbook no. 16618).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 30 January 2014, lot 251, where acquired by the present owner.

Literature

A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reyolds, London, 1899, I, no. 112.
E.K. Waterhouse, Reynolds, London, 1941, p. 45.
D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London, 2000, I, p. 104, no. 241; II, p. 246, fig. 413.

Exhibited

London, J. Leger & Son, 13 Old Bond Street, English Painters: Hogarth to Turner, 19 February- 30 March 1943, no. 5.

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Lot Essay

The present portrait was painted in 1759. Mrs. Bradshaw sat for Reynolds on at least six occasions in November and December of that year (D. Mannings, loc. cit.). A portrait of her husband, Thomas Bradshaw (1733-74), was also painted in the same year (ibid., no. 240).

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