17THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A* (1723-1792)
Details
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A* (1723-1792)
Portrait of a Lady, said to be Mrs. Elizabeth Sheridan, half length, wearing a pink dress with a gold trimmed gauze sash, and a pink ribbon in her hair, in a painted oval
oil on canvas
29¾ x 25in. (75.6 x 63.5cm.)
Portrait of a Lady, said to be Mrs. Elizabeth Sheridan, half length, wearing a pink dress with a gold trimmed gauze sash, and a pink ribbon in her hair, in a painted oval
oil on canvas
29¾ x 25in. (75.6 x 63.5cm.)
Provenance
Rigby Family, Mistley, Suffolk
W. Thane, Rupell Place, England
Sir John Peter Boileau, Bt., Ketteringham Park, Wymondham, Norfolk
Mary Stillman Harkness, New York, by whom bequeathed in 1951 to
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, until 1980
with Newhouse Galleries, New York, 1980-82
S.T. Fee, Oklahoma; his sale, Christie's, New York, May 9, 1985, lot 12, as Portrait of a Lady
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, New York, Jan. 12, 1989, lot 146
W. Thane, Rupell Place, England
Sir John Peter Boileau, Bt., Ketteringham Park, Wymondham, Norfolk
Mary Stillman Harkness, New York, by whom bequeathed in 1951 to
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, until 1980
with Newhouse Galleries, New York, 1980-82
S.T. Fee, Oklahoma; his sale, Christie's, New York, May 9, 1985, lot 12, as Portrait of a Lady
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, New York, Jan. 12, 1989, lot 146
Literature
A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., 1899, III, p. 1102
A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions: 1813-1912, 1914, III, pp. 1035 and 1061
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Summer 1951, X, pp. 29-30, as a portrait of Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C. Wright, Catalogue of Old Master Paintings from a Private Collection in the United States, V. Koshkin-Youritzin, ed., 1984, no. 24
A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions: 1813-1912, 1914, III, pp. 1035 and 1061
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Summer 1951, X, pp. 29-30, as a portrait of Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C. Wright, Catalogue of Old Master Paintings from a Private Collection in the United States, V. Koshkin-Youritzin, ed., 1984, no. 24
Exhibited
London, British Institution, Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French and English Masters, June, 1850, no. 85
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School, 1885, no. 42, as a Portrait of Mrs. Sheridan
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School, 1885, no. 42, as a Portrait of Mrs. Sheridan