Portrait of John Lysaght (1729-98), afterwards 2nd Lord Lisle, half-length, in a pale green coat with a green and gold waistcoat

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Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (1723-1792)
Portrait of John Lysaght (1729-98), afterwards 2nd Lord Lisle, half-length, in a pale green coat with a green and gold waistcoat
with inscribed initals (upper left)
oil on canvas
30¼ x 25¼ in. (76.7 x 64.1 cm.)

Provenance

By descent to John, 5th Baron Lisle; Christie's, 9 June 1888, lot 346 (21 gns. to Martin H. Colnaghi).
By whom sold to Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1888.
C. Groult.
Comtesse le Mizamon, 1964.

Literature

A. Graves & W.V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, II, London, 1899-1901, p. 599 (misidentified as John, 1st Lord Lisle, the sitter's father).
D. Mannings, Sir Joshua Reynolds: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London, 2000, p. 314, fig. 509.

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Lot Essay

The sitter was the eldest son of John Lysaght, who was elevated to the peerage as Baron Lisle of Mountnorth on 18 September 1758, and his first wife, Catherine, third daughter and co-heir of Lord Chief Baron Deane, of the Court of the Exchequer in Ireland. He was Member of Parliament for Castlemartyr between 1753-60, and for Co. Cork between 1765-68. In 1778 he married Mary Anne, daughter of George Connor of Ballybricken, Co. Cork. He succeeded his father as Lord Lisle on 15 June 1781 and died of gout at the Hot Wells, Bristol on 9 January 1798.

Reynolds records three appointments with 'Mr Licet' [sic] on 27 May and 4 and 6 of June 1760, all at midday.

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