Lot Essay
Inscribed on the relining canvas 'C-FRANCIS MEYNELL/SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS 1770'
Details
School of JOHN RUSSELL (1745-1806)
Portrait of Francis Meynell, half length, wearing a brown jacket and waistcoat, holding a hat, in a landscape
oil on canvas--oval
29½ x 25in. (74.9 x 63.5cm.)
Portrait of Francis Meynell, half length, wearing a brown jacket and waistcoat, holding a hat, in a landscape
oil on canvas--oval
29½ x 25in. (74.9 x 63.5cm.)
Provenance
Elsie Winslow, by whom bequeathed to the museum in 1965
Literature
Cincinnati Art Museum Bulletin, Jan. 1968, p. 42, illustrated, as Reynolds
J.D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America, 1979, p. 238, illustrated, as Reynolds
J.D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America, 1979, p. 238, illustrated, as Reynolds