Lot Essay
The sitter, was the daughter of Sir John St. Aubyn, Bt. of Clowance, Cornwall. She married John Buller of Kings Nympton in 1768.
Details
Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (1723-1792)
Portrait of Mrs. Mary Buller (d. 1767) of King's Nympton and Trenant, half-length, in a pink dress with white sleeves and a blue wrap with ermine trim
with inscription upper left, 'Mrs. Buller/of Trenant neé St. Aubyn';
30¼ x 25in. (76.8 x 63.5cm.)
Portrait of Mrs. Mary Buller (d. 1767) of King's Nympton and Trenant, half-length, in a pink dress with white sleeves and a blue wrap with ermine trim
with inscription upper left, 'Mrs. Buller/of Trenant neé St. Aubyn';
30¼ x 25in. (76.8 x 63.5cm.)
Provenance
by descent through Anna Maria, only child of Sir Edward Buller, Bt., M.P., of Trenant Park, Cornwall, wife of James Drummond Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone, and mother of the 15th Baron Elphinstone
Literature
A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., London, 1899, Vol I, pp. 122-3
Engraved
R. Josey, 1866