Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (1723-1792)

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Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (1723-1792)

Portrait of Jane, Countess of Hyndford, seated half-length in a blue and pink dress with white lace trim

inscribed upper left, 'Jane/Countess/of Hyndford/1757';

30 x 25in. (76.2 x 63.5cm.)

Provenance

M. Jules Porges, Paris
Charles Sedelmeyer, 1890
David H. King, New York
Ralston Sale; American Art Galleries, New York, 12 March 1926, lot 67 (to A.U. Newton)
Anon. sale, Butterfield's, San Francisco, 12 June 1990, lot 792 (sold $40,000)

Literature

A. Graves and W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A., London, 1899, Vol. II, p. 504
E.K. Waterhouse, Reynolds, London, 1941, p. 42

Engraved

J. McArdell, 1759

Lot Essay

The sitter was the only daughter of Benjamin Vigor of Fulham, Middlesex. She married John Carmichael, 3rd Earl of Hyndford (1700-1777), a celebrated diplomat, as his second wife in 1756, and sat for the present picture the following year. She died in 1807, aged eighty, at Carmichael House, Scotland.

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