Lot 15
15
No Description

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Provenance
By descent from the sitter to Captain Dalton, Steinford, near Ripon, Yorkshire;
Mrs. Dalton, sold by her 29th June 1878, lot 56 (250gns. to Agnew)
W. Lee, Esq., (purchased from Agnew)
Samuel S. Joseph
Mrs. S.S. Joseph, his widow, 1910
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, 15 July 1987, lot 61
Literature
C.R. Taylor and T. Taylor, The Life and Times of Reynolds, 1865, Vol.I, p.282, note 4
A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1909, Vol.III, p.1070
Sir Walter Armstrong, Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1910, p.237, illus. p.25
Sir Ellis K. Waterhouse, Reynolds, 1941, p.59
Exhibited
Royal Academy, 1882, no.2
Royal Academy, 1894, no.6

Lot Essay

The sitter was born in 1733, the daughter of James Summers of Fillingham, Lincolnshire. She married Sir Cecil Wray, Bt., (1734-1805) of Fillingham who built for her the splendid "Gothick" Castle at Fillingham to the designs of John Carr of Doncaster. Lady Wray died in 1825 aged 88 years. Sittings to the artist are recorded in April 1767 and the bill for this portrait was #36.15s.

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